WINDFALL OF £7000

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10064, 31 July 1925, Page 3

WINDFALL OF £7OOO

STATE BOY’S GOOD LUCK

A MAN’S INTEREST

Reading like a page from fiction is the rise from obscurity to a person of means of a nine-year-old boy, under the care and custody of the South Australian State Children’s Department, who has inherited £iooo. The lad was born at Gawler, in October, 1915/’and into the hands of the State Children’s Department, was subsequently placed the matter of proving his paternity. Later, his mother was committed to a mental hospital. All efforts to proie who was the father ol the lad wei’c thus frustrated. In March, 1920, the boy, then a lad of four years, was committed to the care of the State, as an illegitimate. He was sent to Edwardstown Industrial School for Boys, and subsequently placed with foster parents. Latterly lie has been living with his ioster parents in the country. A man who took an interest m the Inn- died recently, and bv hiu will, which is in the hands of the Executor Trustee Agency Company, of South Australia, Ltd’, he left £7OOO to the lad. . , So far as can he ascertained, tlie boy has no known relatives alive other than liis mother