A WIDOW'S MAINTENANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 223, 18 September 1915, Page 8

A WIDOW'S MAINTENANCE.

COURT INCREASES ANNUITY. <l"!y Telegraph. I'ress Assoi Intinn ) "WELLINGTON. Friday. An amplication under the Family Protection Act was heird by the Chief •fnsthe in the Si.pri*me Court. It concerned the will of .lolm David Ilea.ertv. late of flrevt'rwn, deceased, and was broii-ht by his widow. F.lizi Hilda Ethel l?ea_ortv. and the executors—Andrew tri/.iigli'lin Con-idln". c.f Mirtinbor-nii-h. and John Wilt-hire Card, of Fenthcr-.it.-n. Tho fill va'ite of the r--:ato was C_4.. r >RO. ami deeoaM*.l left bin widow a year nud a house. She considered Cot itiwilffieient. and applied f.r an additional £1.">0 a year. Ills Honor granted the widow -100 a year extra, nnd made an opler that the de eree remain in (_u nt for live months to dive the absent beneliriiiries an opportunity to object. It was announced reeenf.v that in A.'istra'a men who urn invnlidcil will ■'.c -m„t forward if they recover sufficiently to be »-.i«n fit for service. The linn. .1. AIYn. Mini.-ier for I)rf,.,i c. inf. nre.l the House of Re-invrittitrvos l.'u-t n'rh- that tin- same rule would be rWrve] in Ve-.v Zr-nlttvl. If men reeovere.l sniflie'ently to '„* Pt to rotnrn to the front .hey would be drafted to a e.-ntln-rrnf ~f r.-inforv*onient«. but tho .irrai._c'iietit mn.'- with the Imperial authorities was t-'i.it no men likely to be I': for spt'vi.'o n_i n wv.uld be sent kick M,-. •.'!,.„ ~,,.',l „„ t say how mane fif the men nlreidv sent hack woiM '~* ft to ret irti to the front or wh.-tiicr arc would 1„* fit to -erv,* again. \ _r»nrl'p.itK.nal and -uilitarv drcs 'nil will Is. he'd in the Town Hill on W..,!p0.,!,v. *-..-(. niber 2<v'i. in nr'd of th.. We-ir. 1,-1 **r.ld : er*.' Fund. The bn'l w 1 V ~-,-*„,,, 'p,i ;„ r-Min-vMon with Mr. E. V Williams' cool nod .Inn-ii:.-i'a -.■•'. The arrangements are in th" hands of a sfron. eo.rn.mit te-. an 1 it is e*-:.e t.-l tint tho event w-ill bo one of .the m M ii..'.'i->*f':! of it*, kin.! lii-J.l in Auckland for some time.