LATE CARDINAL BOURNE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22161, 15 July 1935, Page 6

LATE CARDINAL BOURNE

ESTATE OF £17,000 SECRET CHARITY TRUST The will of Cardinal Bourne, Rom&n Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, who died on January 1 at the age of 73, has just been proved. He left property valued at £17,308, with net personalty £16,541. The will, dated January, 1929, was written in the cardinal's own handwriting on two sheets of notepaper. He left the whole of his property to Bishop Joseph Butt, Bishop Manuel Bidwell, Monsignor George Goo.te, Monsignor Maurice Emanuel Carton de Wiartand Monsignor Lionel Evans, "as joint tenants and for their own benefit. He also appointed them executors of his will. Cardinal Bourne had, however, instructed his executors, by means of a secret trust, to dispose of his estate along specified charitable lines. Their solicitors said recently: "The ex^ u " tors of the \Vill wish us to state that the whole of the estate, although left to the executors personally, was, in effect, assigned by Cardinal Bourne for certain specified charitable purposes. They have no power of disposition over it."