SIR HENRY WIGRAM
DISPOSITION. OF ESTATE NUMEROUS PRIVATE BEQUESTS. fPer United Press association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 7. The estate of Sir Henry Wigram will be sworn for probate at £190,000. Two legacies are left to public organisations in Christchurch, and the rest of the estate will be absorbed in the payment of numerous bequests to relatives ‘in England and New Zealand, to friends and business associates, and to Sir Henry’s personal attendants. None of those who have cared for him in his many years of ill-health have been omitted from mention in his will. The two public bequests are £SOO to the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association and £IOO to the Royal Life Saving Society. He had given during his lifetime the equivalent of nearly £50,000 to the cause of aviation in New Zealand.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 8
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