WORTH £20,000.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 267, 10 November 1934, Page 12

WORTH £20,000.

DAVENPORT ESTATE. RANGITOTO MURDER CASE. INVOLVED LEGAL PKOCEDUKr. Victims of the Rangitoto murders a few "weeks ago, the Davenport family have left an estate valued at £20,000. The will of the late Mr. German Mortin Davenport, aged 70, father of the family, has been filed in tlie Supreme Court for the granting of probate and sworn at between £14,000 and £15,000. Under the will of the senior Davenport, a life interest in his estate was left to his wife, and on her death to their two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Davenport, senior, were proved to have been killed at the same time. Edward Lancashire Davenport, aged 2S, who died in the- To Kuiti Hospital two days after his parents had been murdered, and who was also the victim of Henare Hona's murders, was the solesurvivor until his death, and came into the -whole estate. His brother had beeu killed before him.

On the death of Edward Davenport the entire estate descended to an uncle and aunt of Edward's, Mr. Albert Edward Davenport, of Tallong, New South Wales, and Mrs. J. Stanford, a. widow, of Wellington.

Already Mr. A. E. Davenport, of New South Wales, with the consent of Mrs. Stanford, has filed an application for letters of administration. There seems littlo doubt that they will share the estate equally.