LEGACY OF £10,000

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21253, 5 August 1932, Page 10

LEGACY OF £IO,OOO

ENGLISHMAN IN AUCKLAND NO MONEY OR EMPLOYMENT FOURTEEN YEARS IN COLONIES ENGAGED IN VARIOUS TASKS News of a legacy of £IO,OOO and partowncrship of a private school in Englan has been received by Mr. Alec Leonard Large, aged 31, an Englishman now in Auckland, who for the past five years has been engaged in casual farm work and on relief undertakings in New Zealand. Mr. Large left England for Australia 14 years , g \Vheu Mr. Large left Englnnd his grand--father was the principal of a grammar school near London. He died recently when over 90 years of ago and his heirs j ai\<) Mr. Large and his uncle, who is a bachelor aged over 60. ; After arriving in Australia in 1918 the young Englishman attended an agricul- ' tural college for three years. Subsequently he took up sheep farming and had a property on the border of New South Wales and Victoria. He lost all his capital in a drought and then came to New Zealand. Mr. Largo visited different parts of New Zealand before settling down. Answering an advertisement for a beekeeper in the Waikato district, he was given a week's wages' and then turned off. For a timo he %vas a commercial traveller and later was engaged in beefarining in the Hauraki Plains district. As tho result of an accident ho was in the Waikato Hospital for some time, and he then went to the Nelson district, where he was employed on relief work. For a year lie studied at the Auckland University College, but he has been in Auckland with little or nothing to do. ( Mr. Large was "down to his last penny when ho received news yesterday of his amazing good fortune. When he left England there seemed little chance of his becoming heir to the estate,, but his father and one uncle died at the age of 49 yeais. He will return to England in October.