WHEN STRONGMAN DIED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 71, 23 March 1916, Page 2

WHEN STRONGMAN DIED.

-. ,~ . m THE WIDOW 'WHO" PJLOTJGHED tASKS FOB HER RIGHTS. . .UNDER HER .HUSBAND'S WILL. - A widowrwho claimed to have largely contfft>'a'tod ; towards the accumulation'of the little nest -egg which _ her _)usband left behind, by frequently, ploughing the fields and milking the cows \vh?n be was sick, applied to Mr. Justice Stringer in the Auckland Supreme Court to-day for Q an. increase'of "the allowance of £40 a „ year bequeathed to her By "her laio hus- s1 band to the sum. of 35/ a week. ; r The" application was under the Family .> Protection Act. and the applicant was * Mrs. Annie Strongman, widow of -the late - Samuel Strongman. Mr. M. G. j McGregor.- who appeared for Mrs. Strongman, said that the estate, after payment of debts, "was -worth approxi- n mately £ 1200, and was yielding some tj £59 in interest. Strongman was twice married; and he left £40 a year to his ? iyMow "so long as she did not re-marry, ' arid'Xhe residue to the children of his first wife. Deceased died in February, 1914, and made his will fourteen years tl before "that. He was induced by 'his wife, a who was .-a strong woman, to go on the t land, -and she frequently ran the farm » herself when he was ill, working at the o plough, milking- cows, and throughout p helping to earn the nest-egg -he left, li However adequate £40 . a year might s havQ.'been at the time the will was made, L contended counsel, it was insufficient c now. When the farm was sold the widow o lost'Ger home, and she was nOw 68 years h of age, and £40 a year was inadequate b to keep her. ]i The Hon. J. A. Tole, X.C.. appearing p for the Public Trustee, pointed out that i the .granting of 35/ a week would run on li the capital to the extent of £30-a year, t to the_prcjudice-of the interests of ths v other "beneficiaries. Mrs. Strongman was t Strong'"and. healthy, and had some earn- c ing capacity, and the interests of two 1 grandchildren by the first wife had to be t considered. p • His Honor declared that whether or l not the capital was partly absorbed the t widow .ladiparamoont claim, and It was t not right that she should 'either live in , penury or have to supplement her income ...at her time of life, particularly as she had. helped in creating the estate. He msde an .order for 35/" a _w.eek_ ta be ' paid" to her out of the estate. d •-'" : '-" •- i.