GANDHI’S CANADIAN PROPERTY
MAY BE SOLD FOR TAX ARREARS HALIFAX, October 1. Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian mystic, owns by inheritance a part-interest in ten acres of pasture land within the corporate limits of Bridgewater, a town on Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast, which he is in danger of losing for nonpayment of taxes. The Mahatma owns a little less than a half interest in the ten acres. The larger share is owned by Rev. J. A. McKean, of Truro, Nova Scotia. The assessed value of the land is about £75, and taxes have accumulated almost to that amount. /Gandhi has liis interest in the property from Miss Mary Chesley, formerly of Lunenburg, N.S;, who died in India last May. Miss Chesley owned a considerable estate in England, which she left to follow. Gandhi as a disciple, to live a life of poverty and renunciation. Her will left to her leader everything she owned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1936, Page 10
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