MISSING SON HAS ANNUITY LEFT HIM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 6

MISSING SON HAS ANNUITY LEFT HIM.

MYSTERY OF LAD WHO FAILED TO RETURN. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, March 26. A life annuity of £750 awaits a missing son of the late Sir Thomas Pink, of Hambledon Place, Henley-on-Thames, the jam manufacturer, whose will, disposes of a fortune of £276,000, the bulk of which is bequeathed to Lady Pink. Sir Thomas directed that the annuity to his son Thomas Bernard Pink is to become payable only when his son shall make actual application for it, Sir Thomas adding, “as I, have lost all trace of him since 1914.” The lost son was the elder of Sir Thomas’s two sons of his'first wife, and his disappearance has remained a mystery in spite of searching inquiries by the family. He was last heard of in Toronto before the war. His sister, Mrs Gerald Dumas, t.old a “Daily Mail” reporter:— “The fact that no trace could be found of Thomas was a great grief to my father, and although he would never mention it, I know he always cherished the hope that he would return some day. “My brother.was for a time connected with the firm, and was in the habit of making frequent business visits to Canada and the United States, where he would stay for six or seven months on each trip. When he left England for Toronto in 1914, it was,on pleasure. He promised to return in the middle of August, but we never learned his address or what he did, and from that time he vanished completely. We heard that he had enlisted in the Canadian Army, and was serving in France shortly after the war broke out, but could never confirm it, nor could we trace anyone who might have passed under an assumed name answering to his description among the list of the missing.”