NO WILL FOUND
MRS. MERRY'S ESTATE SWORN AT UNDER £100,000 (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. No will having been found, application is to be filed in the Supreme Court this week for letters of administration in the estate of the late Mrs. Alice Merry. The estate has been sworn at under £100,000. The surviving relatives are four nieces and six nephews residing in Wellington and Taranaki. Breaking into the home of Mrs. Alice Merry, aged 83, widow, of Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, recently, the police found her dead in bed. A search of the premises resulted in the police finding at least £26,000 in banknotes, believed to be part of her life savings. Mrs. Merry was the owner of many properties in Wellington, estimated to number more than 40. Mrs. Merry and her husband had been in business in Courtenay Place, he as a bootmaker and she as a dressmaker. Mr. Merry died in 1924, and the only child, a son, about five years later.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 284, 1 December 1941, Page 8
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163NO WILL FOUND Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 284, 1 December 1941, Page 8
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