KNICKERS FOR BOYS.
CLERGYMAN'S BEQUEST.*
CHANCERY COURT CASE.
LONDON, Nov. 18.
The bequest of the late Bev. J. Gwyon of a sum of £9976 to provide knickers for boys of the Farnham neighbourhood is now figuring in the Chancery Court. The Public Trustee, at the hearing, coiltended that Mr. Gwyon, who was a bachelor, did not effectually dispose oi: his estate by the will and codicils regarding knickers. The disposal of the estate, he claimed, therefore devolved on the Crown. Counsel argued that the idea that it was charity to give boys knickero was insupportable because it would go on eternally.Mr. Justice Eve interjected: "Or au long as boys wear knickers." Counsel: A century hence, boys may wear skirts.
The Judge, pointing out what the codicil provided, in view of some Parliamentary enactments which, held that the term males included females, remarked that the gift was not intended, to apply to girls, and added that a trust for the suppression of boys would be likely to be more charitable. _
Counsel for the Attorney-General , and for the Farnham Urban Council urged that the bequest was good because it benefited the locality and clothed inhabitants of the kingdom. Mr. Justice Eve reserved judgment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 13
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