“A First-class Tombstone."

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 109, 11 May 1931, Page 11

“A First-class Tombstone."

“I leave the sum of £5OO in order to have a first-class tombstone, a beauti fully-kept flower-bed, and an ornameu tai monument, preferably a broken column, with n’l necessary inscription on same. Also a further sum of £4OO for upkeep and beautifying of grave, tombstone and monument for the space of 30 to 40 years or more, and incidental expenses attached. This sun], viz., £looo—to be the first charge on tho estate and take precedence over all allocations.”

Mr Eyre made bequests to a horn? for aged tailors, and to the Regent Street Polytechnic. There was also s bequest of £lOO to the Welfare of the Blind (civilian section). The codicil revoked the gift tn one “chum,” and directed that any residue be equally <ll vided between the Society for the Welfare of tho Blind and the Middlesex Hospital. According to tho defence, proceeded •Mr Mortimer, until about 1918 tho testator earned not less than £lO per week. He lived with his family in two rooms, one of which he- kept exclusively for himself, except that his wife slept, there. Mr Eyre had a passion for saving money that amounted to a mania, the defendants said, and his estate “was only accumulated at the expense of his wife and family, whom he systematically starved, overworked and boat.”