WINDFALL FOR WOMAN
"In grateful remembrance of her kind companionship," a London woman, employed by a firm of book-sellers, has been left a sum of £SOO and £52 a year under the will of Mr. James Henry Crouch. She is Miss Alice Martha Ponder, who is senior assistant at a bookshop at Muswell Hill. Miss Ponder stated in an interview that she had known Mr. Crouch since 1915. " Daily, since then," she explained, " he had come to the shop for his morning paper. He was a great book lover, and I often helped liiin in his selection of books from our library." Mr. Crouch left £12,506, with net personalty £12,147*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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110WINDFALL FOR WOMAN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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