SOLDIERS' WINDFALL

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 5

SOLDIERS' WINDFALL

BENEFITS UNDER A 'WILL.

(FROSI ODR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

SYDNEY, 25th September. When Mr. German Verge, a grazier of Gladstone, Macleay River, in this State, sat down to make his will he did not forget the men who heard the call during the war. Of his estate he has bequeathed about £100,000 to the returned sailors and soldiers of New South Wales, and a scheme is now being prepared for the allotment of benefits under the wiil. Trustees will administer the fund. The contemplated benefits will include the purchasing' or acquiring of any form of real or personal property, and vesting it in a returned man gratuitously or on terms of repayment. Returned men engaged in farming, dairying, fruit and vegetable growing, grazing, pastoral production, industry, trade, business, handicrafts, or the professions or art are all eligible .Under this head. Financial help may also be given for the education, instruction, and trainin"of a- returned man in any form of know? ledge or skill. Again, when repatria-. tion .benefits are provided under tho fund, they are to be supplementary to any benefits received by returned men from the Repatriation Department ard from other sources available to them. The war was a. call to good men and true.. German Verge was one of them. Hardly anyone in the State had ever heard of the man until his munificent rift eaw| to, JigUt. b