£2000 FOUND IN DEAD MAN’S HOME

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 47, 19 November 1941, Page 10

£2000 FOUND IN DEAD MAN’S HOME

Owner Of Auckland’s Famous Windmill

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. November 18.

Mr. Joseph Partington, proprietor of Auckland's famous windmill built on an elev.-rred site near the city 9" years ago, was found dead about noon today in his residence close to the mill. He was 83 years old, unmarried, and for the last three years lived alone. In the house money which will probably amount to more than £2OOO wars found. While his solicitor was searching for a ! photograph at the request of newspaper representatives, he found bundles of banknotes in envelopes, tins and other receptacles, mostly in locked 'bottom drawers of'his dressingtable. The bedroom door was locked. A quantity of silver and copper coins was also found.

In the earlj- days the mill was used for the manufacture of flour and suitplied the Imperial troops during the Maori wars. The mill still operates. Mr. Joseph Partington was the son of the founder. A tradesman found his 'body slumped back in a chair in the kitchen. There were remnants of a meal on the bare table. His bed upstairs had not been slept in.