SIR JOSEPH ROBINSON
PRESS CRITICISM OF WILL REPLY BY DAUGHTER. (United Frees Association.) (By Electric Telegraph-^Copyright.) < CAPETOWN, November 8. (Received Nov. 8/ at 8 pan.) Countess Labia (Sir Joseph Robinson’s daughter) replies to the article in the Cape Times, describing it' as “ a ■vicious, brutal attack on the memory of my father, who was one of the ablest, one of- the most sensitive and most kind hearted men who ever lived; in fact the biggest man South Africa ever produced.” She claims that thousands of South Africans have cause to bless ■ his name for assisting them in distress and need, but he hated ostentation, giving thousands without public acknowledgment. tinder the will of her father. Countess Labia was left one-third of the estate, which was valued at £12,000,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 13
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