BIG SYDNEY ESTATES
SYDNEY, Sept. 27. The wills of two prominent Sydney men who left a total of £994,990 were granted probate in the Supreme Court. Sir Thomas Buckland, widower, of the suburbs of Hunter’s Hill, left £589,900 and Mr. Harold Percival Christmas, of Potts Point, founder of Woolworths in Australia, £405,090. Both men died in June.
Sir Thomas Buckland left £23,000 to relatives and friends and the remainder to charity. Mr. Christmas left the bulk of his estate to his widow, daughters and son.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22446, 29 September 1947, Page 6
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