Londoners are walking more. Last year the passenger decrease on railway* was 4.7 per cent., on tram* 8.7 per .mh and on buses 1 7 per cent. A woman who, for 40 year* ran an hotel in Esaex has left a farm fortaaa to charity. She was Mr« Elisabeth Maty Beech, of the Prince Albert Hotel, Chin*, ford Mount, Essex. Her estate hee been valued at £103, M2.. Although so well eft Mrs Beech had refuted up her work. She wai 77 when she died, and had made her will only three day* before. Except for bequests amounting to about £6OOO and a few indefinite provisions, her large estate is to go to "such ewiffif ties as the trusties may in their absolute discretion think fit."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 7
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