AFTER MANY YEARS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 238, 8 October 1945, Page 3

AFTER MANY YEARS

BENEFICIARY FOUND MAN LIVING IN ENGLAND Unexpected success in a search which had been made for some years for a beneficiary under an Auckland will was reported in the Supreme Court to-day. Under the will of Miss Charlotte Upton, leaving an estate then valued at £13,500, provision was made for a legacy to Henry Upton Stokes. The beneficiary could not be located at the time by the trustees, the New Zealand Guardian Trust, and last August it was reported to the Court that in May, 1943, a sum of £1228 had been set aside to provide an annuity for H. U. Stokes, but that the trustees had been unable to locate 2 im ; The Coui 't then directed that final efforts be made by advertisement in Australia and elsewhere to locate the beneficiary.

To-day a report was made to Mr. Justice Finlay by Mr. Wallace, for the Guardian Trust, that the beneficiary had been located at Gosperton, in Lincoln County, England. Application was made by counsel, assented to by Mr. Hamer for Stokes, and Mr. White for other beneficiaries, to have Stokes declared the beneficiary referred to in the will, and his Honor agreed to make the declaration accordingly.