MERCHANT'S WILL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21509, 5 June 1933, Page 10

MERCHANT'S WILL

TOTAL ESTATE OF £43,000 LATE MR. STEWART DAWSON By his will, dated October 20, 1931, Mr. David Stewart Dawson, merchant, of Hatton Garden, London, and Sydney, who died on August 6, 1932, at the age of 83 years, loft estate sworn for probate purposes at £43,000. The testator gave to his wife £IOOO to be paid immediately on his death, and to his daughter, Bertha Verral, £250, adding that he had already amply provided for them. He directed his English executors to allow his wife to have the absolute use and enjoyment' during her life of his villa and contents at Monte Carlo. He added that if any of his sons and daughters or their respective husbands, wives or issue should dispute that gift to his wife, the disputant should forfeit all benefit under his will. To each of his daughters, Lila Arnold and Vanna Jerrard, testator bequeathed £250, and £750 a year for life; to Joyce Verral £SO, and £6 a week for life; to Malcolm McNab, brother-in-law, £5 a\week for life; Georgie Jerrard (grand-daughter), £2 a week until the death of her mother, and afterwards £6 a week for life; Captain Jerrard (son-in-law), £4 a week for life; David Arnold (grandson), £2 a week until the death of his mother, and afterward £4 a week for life; Harry Arnold: (son-in-law), £4 a week for life, to commence on the death of the survivor of testator and Lila Arnold.

Annuities on certain conditions were also left to David Stewart Dawson (grandson) and Harriet Josephine Stewart Dawson (grand-daughter), Charlotte Barbour, wife of the Rev. John Barbour, and after her death to her husband; Valentine Stanley, of Darfinghurst, Sydney, David Stanley (her son), and Queenie Stanley (her daughter). To his nephew, James McWilliam, > testator bequeathed 2000 shares in Stewart Dawson and Company (N.S.W.), Limited. Bequests to employees of the Stewart Dawson companies included:—Charles Bennett, £1 a week for life; Alexander Dawson, 2000 shares in the Stewart Dawson New Zealand company; H. S. Hislop and Ernest J. Hocking, each 1000 shares in the New Zealand company; —. Barker, 1000 shares in the Western Australian company; James Robb, 1000 shares in tho Queensland company; James Pirie, 2000 shares in the principal company. Tho residuary estate is divided into thirds. Half of each third is devised to each of testator's sons, Percy, Stuart and Norman Stewart Dawson, and the remaining half of each third upon trust to their children.