MAN’S SINGULAR WILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 371, 15 September 1930, Page 9

MAN’S SINGULAR WILL

EX-M.P.’s “GOOD CELLAR'’ Curious provisions are contained in tho will of Mr John Kenneth Foster, J.P-, of Egton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer, who, it was revealed tho other day, left unsettled propeity value £128,823, with net personalty £113,726. Air Foster, who was AI.P. for Coventry iu 1910, expressed the desire, “That in accordance with the -custom in Cleveland, a bidder to my funeral be sent round the estate, and that wine, beer and sandwiches be provided, at the expense cf my general estate, for tenants and others who are present at my fu. oal.” He directed that the stocks of wines and liquors at Egton should be maintained by the trustees, “as I know tho value of h noe I c»har.” The request wa- ; rrade by Mr Foster that his wife would seal up the diary commenced by him during the war and retain it, unopened, for her life, and by her will make it to pass with the settled estate, with the direction that it should not bo opened until he had been dead for not less than 30 yearsTho will concludes;— “I should have liked to have made many other gifts, both charitable and personal, but tho present heavy taxation and what I am accustomed to give in my lifetime’ so reduce my income that I am unable adequately to provide for the largo sum which I know will bo required at my death to pay death duties, and consequently I do not feel justified in further reducing what will bo available for my wife and children.”