A MODERN WILL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12869, 23 May 1936, Page 9

A MODERN WILL

for TESTATORS.

FORGIVENESS SOUGHT FOR ACC CM UL ATFNG M ONEY.

J WILLOUGHBY WEMP, being of sound mind (considering what it has been through) do hereby, largely as a gesture, declare this.my last will and testament ;

Paragraph I. To my wife, Anasta,sia, my three sons, Charles, Opie and !Ignats, and my daughter, Minerva, I leave my entire estate, "personal, share and share alike.

Paragraph 11. ' 1 ask their forgiveness for having accumulated a sum of money so largo that they will get very Tittle of it after the Government has taken its cut. and 1 beseech them particularly for their pardon for building up and retaining a large and legitimate business and impresing upon my heirs the burdens and trials inoidential to its distribution as sharkbait.

Paragraph 111. 1 leave to Iho above-named heirs my certified list of capablo and com bn la live lawyers with the advice that, they select no more than one lawyer each, as the lees will he plenty; and I urge that a timelimit he put on the battle. You know, my dears, how lawyers are. Paragraph IV. I request that my wife have the large oil portrait of myself made of me when it. was not thought 1 was doing anything of an ignoininotis nature in striving diligently to provide for the future of my wife and children. Bitter as she may feel about me in the light, of presentday legislation. I trust, the portrait may bring compensating memories ol happier days. Paragraph V. f request my heirs t i destroy at once by fire the copy ol an article 1. once wrote on “Success,” to gether with any and all hooks in my library on thrift, ambition, diligence, budget balancing and bookkeeping.

DESTROY ARTICLE ON “SUCCESS.”

Paragraph Vi. 1 direct, that my heirs distribute equitably among them my collection of rubbers, goloshes, snowshoes. woollen underwear, umbrellas aiul fur mittens. It looks to me us if they would need them and they are the. i nly things the Government. won’t, try to grain Or am I

wrong again? Paragraph .VJf. To my daughter, Jenne, not mentioned hithertolorc. 1 leave do part of mv estate. She was always my precious child and I wish t i spare her every care and annoya nee. LOAFING SON FOLLOWED RIGHT COURSE Paragraph \ ill. My son. Dudley, not heretofore mentioned. L cut- off completely from any share” whatsoever or oversow hat.- He loft home at an early age, spent many years of his life as a. loafer, blew in every penny he ever earned, and lias never been anything but a- spendthrift and a waster. 1 realise now that he was right, and 1 not only congratulate him on his ability to look ahead, I now spare him the annoyance and tribulations which fall upon those members of my family who accepted my standards of life.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF. 1 have hereunder set my band and seal, WILLOUGHBY WF,MP.