PROVISIONAL BEQUEST
NEW ZEALAND LEGATEE. SCHOOLBOY AT WAIROA. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 2. (Received Dec. 3, at 1 a.m.) The News Chronicle says; “A keen desire to perpetuate the family name actuated the Rev. John Arthur Wright’s provisional bequest of £15,000 to a 15-year-old schoolboy. Matthew Neal HallWright, of Wairoa, New Zealand. The testator, who is a Bedford man, left his estate in trust, with the remainder to Matthew if he assumes the name ‘Leslie instead of ‘ Hall-Wright.’ The lad is Hie testator’s great-nephew and a son of Wairoa. Mr Wright christened his only son Leslie but the latter predeceased him, as did a grandson, who was also named Leslie and was killed in East Africa duriii" the war. The testator further desires Matthew to enter holy orders and "o to the old-world village of Todington, Bedfordshire.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21199, 3 December 1930, Page 9
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