PETITION PRESENTED
CAUGHEY PRESTON CASE Parliamentary Reporter. WELLINGTON, this day.
Leave to introduce the Marianne Caughey Preston Estate Bill, a private measure, was given in the House of Representatives yesterday on a petition presented by Mr. A. G. Osborne (Govt., Onehunga), on behalf of Reginald Caughey Seymour Smith, shop assistant, of Auckland. The main objects of the Bill are to increase a bequest of £100 to Reginald Caughey Seymour Smith under the will "of Marianne Caughey Preston, formerly Marianne Caughey Smith, to £15,000, and to give authority to Smith to use the name of Reginald Caughey Seymour Smith as his- own.
In a five-page preamble to the Bill particulars were given of Smith's upbringing and of wills made by Marianne. Caughey Smith and her first husband, William Henry Smith, and the result of recent litigation in the Supreme Court. The petition accompanying the Bill said that its objects Were not attainable otherwise [than by legislation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1945, Page 7
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