N.Z. WOMAN’S BEQUEST
BENEFIT OF ANIMALS PROTECTION OF BUSH (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 27, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 27. In the belief that the “rough and cruel treatment of God’s creatures had a brutalising effect on the human race,” a former New Zealand woman farmer, Miss Ann Young, Feilding, has left the bulk of her estate for the benefit of dumb animals. The will setting out her reasons was lodged for probate in Sydney yesterday. Her New South Wales estate is £5409. She also left an estate in New Zealand. She bequeathed £3OOO to various charities, together with a legacy ol £IOOO to the forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, to “encourage the protection of New Zealand’s beautiful native bush.”
The residue of the estate will be divided between all societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New Zealand.
Miss Young disclosed that her brothers and sisters were in good circumstances, but her own position in life was due entirely to her personal efforts as a farmer and the exercise of thrift.
“I have been a lover of dumb animals all my life, and the rough and cruel treatment to which they are often unnecessarily subjected has greatly impressed me.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 27 November 1941, Page 10
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207N.Z. WOMAN’S BEQUEST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 27 November 1941, Page 10
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