Leisure Not Favoured

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 8

Leisure Not Favoured

HEIR TO ENGLISH ESTATE Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April f. Having spent three weeks in Dunedin, during rrhich he and his wife experienced a most enjoyable holiday, Mr. Jack Dowdeswell, heir to an English estate which he has never seen, boarded the Maunganui this evening to proceed to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Dowdeswell will spend a week in Wellington and then will set off Homeward to Melbourne by the Maunganui. Both intend to sail for England after putting their affairs in order in Melbourne. This morning Mr. Dowdeswell commented favourably upon the beauty of Dunedin, but r life of leisure was not at all to his liking, he said, and he felt that the time had dragged over the past week. He would be pleased to set foot again in Melbourne, where all his interests and those of his wife were centred. * Mrs. May Henderson, the mother with whom he was united after 42 years, accompanied him to the Maunganui to bid farewell. Unfortunately she was not sufficiently well to undertake the voyage to Australia with her son and his wife To lose all trace of her son when he was a boy of seven years, and have him return to her after 42 years, a married man with a family of six children, was last month the happy experience of Nurse May Henderson, Dunedin, who is now 70 years of age. Mr Jack Dowdesv/ell was the long-lost son. Nurse Henderson was a member of a vaudeville troupe just on 50 years age, and considered the environment of the stage not fitting for a boy of tender years. She left him in the care of a Mr Beaumont, then resident in Dunedin, until she was able to have him with her and direct his fortunes from a more suitable home. In her absence Mr Beaumont departed with the child and took up residence in Melbourne, with the result that Mrs Dowdeswell (as Nurse Henderson then was) was unable to discover the address of Mr Beaumont, lost all touch with her son, who was heir to a substantial sum on reaching his majority.