WEALTHIEST NEW ZEALANDER.
TYRATTFT. .Cffi* , " ECDiDIFOKP, <ByTe*egraph-—Press Associatlon-i i PALMERSTON NOKEH- this day., ' I Mr. E. J. Kiddiford, known tlirougfocrut; . the Dominion as "King" Riddiford, andi the largest payer of taxes, and especially of graduated "taX) in New Zealand, died ■I at 2 pjn. to-day of heart failure. He 1 had been ill for some time, but had ralr lied recently. A grand-nephew of Basil Forster Pratt, died here at eight o'clock this morning of appendicitis, after a very j brief illness,- and his death was a shockto Mr. Riddiford. Mr. Kiddiford's body will be taken to his old home at the Hcctt for the funeral. Mr. E. J. Biddiford was the first child 'baptised in New Zealaml by Bishop Selwyn, and his father, •'rtfco' arrived in : Wellington in 1839, bronght I out with hi'™ the first house erected at, Pipifcea Point. Mr. Riddiford leaveSthiee sons and three daughters. Hβ wae easily the 'wealthiest man in New Zealand, and had large areas intact in , this and Wairarapa districts.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 104, 3 May 1911, Page 9
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168WEALTHIEST NEW ZEALANDER. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 104, 3 May 1911, Page 9
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