TURF.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11376, 29 November 1930, Page 12

TURF.

TATTERSALL SWEEPS

EARLY CAREER CP POUNDER

There have been sweeps and sweeps in connection with the Turf in Australia, but those instituted by the late Mr George Adams developed into proportions colossal compared with any others, though he was not first in the field. The following sketch of the career of Mr Adams was given in the Sydney‘‘Referee” shortly after his death in 1904: / “Hie later Mr George Adams was a native of Baldock, Herts,' but all the, working -years of his life were spent in 'Australia. He arrived in Sydney .with hi's parents and four brothers on 28th,. May. 1855 by the ship. Constitution.- Irr, 1857 lie took jiart in i- tho" gold, rushes of the time,. and and made some money. After running the. Steam Packet Hotel, lviama, for a time,- he bought a'sheep and cattle station in the Kiania district, • subsequently opening a wholesale butchery in GoulbiirnA .M :. . , ’ . : .

“In 1878 Mr Adams took -Tatterasll’s.'Hotel, Sydney/ which', with adjacent properties, lie afterwards purchased, enlarging; the-;hotel building, tho Marhlo Bar and the Palace Theatre, ; and establishing the Palace electric light-station”.' , . “Later'he- bought the /Bulli Coke Works, then the Bulli Colliery together' with tho'Heamer Governor Blaek,all.; He , engaged Jin', many, enterprises' including. ) the .. .Waterloo Paper Mills , ISfewcastle... Electric Light fetation, Broken Hill ditto, and many other ventures in “New South "Wales. His interests. liavo: been vastly.'.; extended of late years/ principally' in Tasmania, his latest undertaking being tho erection of Adams’ ‘ Tasmanian Brewery. -*» v ■ - \

CONSULTATIONS BEGUN

‘ ‘To ‘ the public ' at laifge, however, Mr-Adams’• • name'- is- best , known

through the medium of the consultations ho ha,s conducted, for so many years. Tho first sweep was drawn in 1881, being on tho Sydney Gold Gup—• won tliat year by Progress. This, was a £2OOO sweep, with subscriptions of £l. The sweeps liavo, continuously grown, until they reached 100.000 at £l. . , : " - ’’i ' -

. “Georgo Adams left- a widow, but no family, two elder brothers (Clias. and John). His many interests connected with his name are ■ carried on under the management of ■ Mr. W. J. Adams, who for some years acted as general manager. ;

THE “TATTERSALL” WILL. . “Mr George Adams executed his will on 16th March, 1901. The trustees and executors were Messrs. W. J. Adams, G. J. Barry, D. H. Harvey and W. A. Findlay, each ol’ whom received a legacy of - £lOOll. Annuities were provided for to the following: The testator’s widow £500; his brother Charles £500; his brother John, £300; to the. present wife of the said Gerald Joseph .Barry, £250; to Phil Glonister, £200; to Georgo Lowsby, the elder, £100; to Mrs E. Hayden, niece of tlie testator’s first wife, £100; to Mrs William Adams, widow of testator’s late father. £2OO. After the, death of Airs William Adams, the £2OO per annum to be equally divided- between the children of Alary Oregon, deceased, a daughter of the said Airs William Adams by a former husband, and the survivors and .survivor of such children. Tlio residue of, the said net rents - and profits, which is considerable, were to be paid to-tho testator’s nephew, the said William Joseph Adams,-for his life.

“The trustees ..were authorised- to carry on "any other business which tho testator was. ear lying on and to stand possessed of the moneys hereinbefore directed to be held upon tlio trusts in favor of ebaritablc, for,.charitable, benevolent, or philanthropic purposes in tlie several States of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, as therein mentioned. Tho testator also gave for tho same purpose all moneys and prizes in the said sweeps consultation business, the claim whereto might be or become barred. “All the testator’s real, and the residue of, bis personal-estate in Tasmania, except'-ther said' sweep consultation business and in personal estate and moneys connected therewith, and except moneys lying to his, credit in any hank in Tasmania, and except a debt due to tho testator by the said David Hastie Harvey,-passed by .the joint .effect of the testator’s will, and u subsequent deed to, the following persons iu the following shares: David Hastie Harvey, 33-100 tbs; William Joseph. Adams, ' 30-1 OOt-hs ; Edward Elliot Grant, 18-I,oot-lis ; -Tlios. Lyons, 14-100tlis; . Gerald Joseph Barry 3tlQOtlis or l-10th ; .and - William Alexander Finlay, 21-100ths, or l-40tli. “Tbo sweep consultation business, as carried on by. the testator under licence from the Government of Tasmania, and all moneys, credit,- and effects used' in connection therewith, all moneys lying to his credit :u any bank in Tasmania, all of which are

referred to as his sweep consultation business, were given to his trustees upon -trust, to pay prizes and other moneys payable in respect of such sweep business.”