WIDOW AND STEPDAUGHTERS
INCOME FROM ESTATE
COURT'S TEMPORARY ORDER.
A temporary order was made by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court yesterday for the payment of £3 a \Vpek to Mrs. Charlotte Jane Miller (Mr. Cocker), a Takapuna widow, who applied for an increased allowance under the will of her late husband, Samuel Bradsbaw Miller. The widow and four daughters of the testator fcv a previous marriage were receiving about 25/ a week each under The will, and the temporary order, which dated the payments from February 1 last, provided that the allowance to two of them, Mrs. F. M. Howard (Mr. Greville) and Mrs. Forbes Eadie (Mr. Singer), should be increased to £2 a week each. The trustee was given authority to resort to capital if the income from the £8000 estate was' insufficient.
His IV>nor made the interim order to enable Mr. A. H. Johnstone, counsel for two of the daughters, who were in South Africa, to inquire into the financial position of h*s client*, rne of whom was a widow and the other a spinster.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 24 April 1931, Page 12
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