UNUSUAL BILL
TERMS OF WILL VARIED
The Marianne Caughey Preston Estate Bill, which varies the terms of the will of the late Marianne Caughey Preston, of Auckland, by increasing to £15,000 the provision made in the will for Reginald Caughey Seymour Smith, was read a third time and passed in the House of Representatives, yesterday afternoon. Mr A. G. Osborne (Government, Oneh'unga), who was in charge of the Bill, thanked members of the House for their sympathetic reception of the measure. The purpose of the Bill was to put right what he, and he thought also members of the House, believed to be a grievous wrong. He was confident that the objects of the Bill had the sympathetic and human understanding of members of both sides ot the House. Mr. Osborne said he desired to express his personal thanks to Mr. Bissett, who represented the Guardian Trust before the Committee of the House, to which the Bill was I referred, and also the executors of the estate for the attitude they had adopted towards the Bill. It was a Bill which was almost unique in New Zealand history.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 6
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188UNUSUAL BILL Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 6
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