FORTUNE IN ARGENTINA
BEQUEST TO (IOVERNMENT BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 16. The courts have been asked to .grant probate of the will of Mr. John Oswald Hall, for ">0 years one of the loading .Argentine importers, who died ou January 5, leaving an immense for nine, the amount, of which has not yet been calculated. Mr. Hall, who war born in Slrnt-l'ord-on-Avon in 1849, was said to be die owner of Hie best collection of orchids in South America. He left: £BBOO to .his sister, Mary Bertha, a Carmelite nun at Ohichestor, to pass to the Mother Superior of the Convent if she should have predeceased him;
£3OOO to the British Government, £lf)00 to the Italian Government, ami £ISOO to the Belgian Government, al! for the victims of the world war; and £II,OOO and his mansion for a fund lo maintain a school of botany at Buenos Aires.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 7
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147FORTUNE IN ARGENTINA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 7
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