BACK TO LIFE.
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS. DECLARED DEAD BY COURT. | (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Declared dead by the Supreme Court over fifteen years ago, Walter Nei*_on was invested with life on Saturday last. After being missing for twenty years, Neilson, who is a seafaring man, was assumed by his family to be dead in 1902, when Mr. Justice Cooper granted an order declaring him co at the end of the customary seven years. Thus since 1909 the man has been dead in the eyes of the law and interest in his estate has since found its way to his children. The missing man, always a wanderer, voyaged over the civilised globe since he was last heard of. He now follows the calling of a ship's cook. He was saved from several torpedoed ships during the war. On satisfactory proof of his identity being given, the Chief Justice granted an order reinvesting Xeilson. with a legal personality.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 77, 31 March 1924, Page 4
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