ESTATE WORTH £14,000
NO PROVISION FOR FAMILY
COURT GRANTS £GOO A YEAR
(By Telegraph. -Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
A remarkablo story of a master mariner who committed suicide and left no provision for his wife and four children out of an estato worth £14,000, was told in the Supreme Court when Bessie Maud Gill brought an originating summons against the executors seeking further provision.
Frederick Joseph Gill made a will on 26th September, 1928, and on 26th September, 3920, committed suicide, leaving the whole estate to a brother and a sister. The- sister had predeceased him, so that half of the estate became available to her family.
It was stated that the wife came to Now Zealand in 1924 with £9000, and at her husband's request invested it in his name. ,•
The Court increased the family's in come to £GOQ per annum.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 40, 15 August 1930, Page 10
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