£30,000 LEGACY LEFT HIM COMPLAINING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 4

£30,000 LEGACY LEFT HIM COMPLAINING

LONDON, May 29

One beneficiary, who was left £30,000 in the £616,237 will of Mr. Eric Turk, of Hertfordshire, is not a bit pleased. He is 83, and the will stipulates that the £30,000 be paid to him at the rate of £IOOO every six months. To collect all his bequest he must live to 98! The beneficiary is Hugo Daniels, Turk's brother-in-law, who commented: —“His hand stretches out from the grave. It was just the same in his lifetime. He never gave his relatives lump sums. It was always small regular allowances. In that way he controlled these people.

“After all I have done for Turk —I once prevented his bankruptcy—l have no right words to say about this. I can’t do what I like with it. lie is the dictator.”

Turk, a former director of Australian gold mining companies, also left £60,000 to three members of a St. Kilda (Melb.) family who went to Australia from Czechoslovakia 11 years ago, and large bequests for education of Jewish child victims of Nazism.