THE CAMPBELL BEQUESTS.
PBTTnOH TO PAKUAVEBT.
•FOR REMISSION , OF DtMEB. (By lelegiapli.—-Press Association.) WELLENGTON, Wedneedey. Mr. A. Glover (Auckland Central) till ! afternoon presented to P&rliameirt 4 petition asking for a remission of tie deaith and succession duties payaWe on the estate of the late Sir John Login Campbell. The petition ie made by Messrs. A. M. Myers and A. & Bankart, executors and trustees of the will.
The estate left by Sir John Campbell in -mined for death duty purposes at not to* than 145,000, the wide of which is liable to estate dirty at IS per cent., and part of it to β-oeoeasioii duty. Within three-yara of hie death he Bids gifts amounting to 11,579, whiah »r» also eubjexjt to estate duty *nd "partly to succession duty. The total detA ami succession duties payable oa ihese amounts is £25,781, of -whiA'-i 14,485 is borne iby public gilts, and by private giwe. , -■, • ' The petitioner* «xpJain fchai the probabilities are that the residuary bequest to tihe "dhildren of his daughter will fail, 19 thai ultimately tTie balance of the «* tate will, under itiie tenne of the will, become a public gift to the peoplt ol "New Zealand. "Sudh lofty . pablij spirit and wise philanthropy on bo munificent a (scale has never before been athibLted by any priyato citizen in Ken Zealand," and the piatitionere believe tkt as a m*tter of public policy the Stat* tronld do well bo encourage other prirak persone to emulate the example givttl by the late Kγ John Dogan Oampl^ell.; His ■woiald best be done, 'they urge, by freeing (hie estate from the heavy exitftims for estate duty on the public gifts. .i* The petitioners therefore Parliament should remit the dirtr of l £ 12,465 now payable, and tkit tta •mount of £ 5.700, the dtiity payable on the residuary legatees' interest, should aiso be remitted. ■'
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 4
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306THE CAMPBELL BEQUESTS. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 4
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