A WORRIED LEGATEE
BRISBANE GARDENER’S SADNESS FORTUNE MEANT LEAVING AUSTRALIA (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, Apl. 21. Although he is off to Ireland to take over an inheritance of from £40,000 to £50,000, Mr Jerry Delaney was the saddest passenger on a train which took him from Brisbane on the first stage of his journey to wealth. He hated the idea of leaving Brisbane, where he had been a gardener for 16 years. "It’s a terrible state of affairs,” he said. “ It’s like leaving home to go to a strange place. I have been crying like a child for days.” After spending about a fortnight in Sydney, where he has business to attend to, he will go by flyingboat to England, and then to the Irish Free State to take over his inheritance. He is the sole beneficiary under, the will of his only brother, who died about eight months ago and left an estate consisting of a hotel and shopping property in Mountrath, Queen’s County. Mr Delaney claims there is no doubt about his claim to the estate. “ Everything has been fixed through the solicitors,” he said. He is in his seventy-fourth year, and is a bachelor.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 13
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