LORD PIRRIE’S THOUSANDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 7

LORD PIRRIE’S THOUSANDS.

TPJBUTE TO WIFE’S LOVE AED WISDOM. Viscount Pirrie, chairman of tho shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, who died on board ship in tho Panama Canal last June, left property in Engolnd of the gross value of £7071785 10s Uu. with net personality £7,1,869 Os 4d. In his will, dated March 20, 1924. ho stated : I make no bequests to charitable purposes, as I have always felt that a man is bettor able to do during his lifetime ail that is good in his mind in that way. and so do good more directly and efficiently. All his shares in Harland and Wolff, the Witlcy Park estate, and the residue of the property ho leaves to his wife for life, saying ;—- These provisions were in token not merely of tho great love and affection he bore to her and his confidence in her discretion and wisdom in all things, but also with feelings of gratitude for the help she had given him throughout his career. On the deaf h of Lady Pirrie the ultimate residue of the property is to bo held in trust for the mf'-Ih" on of the company of Harland and Wolff, and in tho event of its being converted into a public company or wound up, for tho benefit, of the ordinary and A preference shareholders.