A THOUSAND A YEAR.
GROCER BOY’S FORTUNE. •,■ \ i A Whitby (England) grocer’s assistant has, on his coming of age, inherited £16,000 left in trust for him by his father, a Whitby fisherman. He is Morris Hodgson, employed in a shop in Hunter Street. His good fortune has left him quite unchanged, he has no plans, and he refuses even to discuss the matter. “I am content where I am,” he told a reporter of the Sunday Express. "There is nothing more to be said.” - The acquisition of -‘■he fortune is in itself a romance. Hisf father inherited about £70,000 owing to the failure of a distant relative named Miss Morris, who died in 1915 at the age of 85, to dispose of the bulk of her estate, part of which she left to charity. Mr Hodgson settled £13,000 in trust for his son, then an infant, until he reached his slst birthday. The income, to which he now becomes entitled, is between £9OO and £IOOO a year. < _ ——— — tm I
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1111, 3 April 1930, Page 7
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169A THOUSAND A YEAR. Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1111, 3 April 1930, Page 7
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