“KICKED CUT OF SCHOOL”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 413, 3 November 1930, Page 10

“KICKED CUT OF SCHOOL”

EXPRESSION OF THANKS. GIFT IN A WILL. I For beiun ejected from Sunday school 1 ’dr Frederick Stokes, of Sherwood and ! Nottingham, incorporated accountant, ■expressed his thanks in an unusual way. j hi his will, which disposed of estate worth altogether £46,053, with net perIsonality £43.647. he suggested that the incident paved the way to his success in I i f e. Mr Stokes gave £25 to the United Methodist Free Church, Palm Street, New Bas ford. * ‘with my thanks that a hot headed teacher in the Sunday school kicked me. literally, out of the school some 50 years ago, my crime being that 1 was talking to another boy, with the consequence (small thanks to him) that | instead of being ‘taught’ by him, I set ; to work and studied hard on my Sun- ; days, and thereby probably laid the i foundations for such success as I have ; had in life.” ! A bequest of £2OOO to Nottingham i University was revoked by a codicil saving:—“Mv reason is that the increases in taxes and duties have now got to such a pitch in this country, that there will be very little left of my life’s savings if I do what 1 would like to do I in the way of legacies. Further, my 50 rears’ experience of the University • product’ makes it doubtful to me wheI liter—except in special cases—the train ■ihg is any good for this workaday world; ami further still, as it seems a oarr of the policy of the Government to keep ail sorts and condition? of men and women ‘studying, etc.’ until they are well on in years. T think the Governnont had better pay for them.”