MR BATA’S WILL
£200,000 LEFT TO WIDOW £280,000 FOR TOWN. PRAGUE, September 10. The will of Thomas Bata, the Czech shoe manufacturer, who was killed in an aeroplane accident, has been published. . _ . . His widow, Mrs Mane Bata, is left the shares of the Zlin works, amounting to about £200,000. She also receives his country house near Zlin and two other estates. . Bata shares to the nominal value of about £IBO,OOO are left to his only son, Thomas. , ~ Jan Bata, his step-brother, is nominated as head of the whole concern. ]f the heirs desire, they may be paid off in cash, but only if this docs not •damage the general interests of the Concern. Bata loaves to the town ol Zlin the sum of £280.000, being the amount of the loan which ho granted to the town, and, further, the Zlin clubhouse--for-merly Buchenrod Castle—on condition that" no alcoholic drinks are ever sold and that the groat park is never built OTOI,
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19320927.2.69
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 21218, 27 September 1932, Page 7
Word Count
160MR BATA’S WILL Evening Star, Issue 21218, 27 September 1932, Page 7
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in