NOT VOID.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 247, 19 October 1933, Page 13

NOT VOID.

PLYMOUTH BROTHER'S WILL "GOOD CHARITABLE TRUST." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Court of Appeal to-day upheld the appeal of the Solicitor-General from the judgment of Mr. Justice MaeGregor, delivered in Wellington on July 11, 1933, in which he held certain gifts under the will of Gains Brewer, formerly of Wellington, void for uncertainty. Brewer died on November 20, 1923, leaving a will directing the trustees, in their . absolute discretion, on the death of his widow, to oxpcixl the residue of the estate "in the service of my Lord and Master and/or in relieving at any time any pious person or persons in need whom they may wish to assist." The Court held that the gift was a good charitable trust not void for uncertainty. The trustees are to submit a scheme for distribution to the Court below. The testator was a member of the pious sect of Plymouth Brethren, which had no permanent minister or organisation to which the residue of his estate, approximately £SOOO, could be left, stated the Solicitor-General, Mr. A. Fair, K.C., at the hearing of the appeal. Testator's only alternative, therefore, was to leave the estate to trustees and give them general discretion as to the distribution of the estate.