MAN POSSIBLE ’QUAKE VICTIM PRESUMED TO BE DEAD
One of the eight bodies that remained unidentified after the 1931 Napier earthquake may have been that of Mr. Robert Morrison Millar, whose whereabouts a six-year search has failed to reveal. It was suggested'in the Dunedin Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Kennedy, that Mr Millar died in the Napier earthquake, and application was made for an originating summons asking for an order that he be presumed to have died before September 10, 1930. The application was made by a solicitor, as trustee under the will of Miss Mabel Millar, deceased, a spinster, of Mosgiel. It would be impossible for anyone to suggest reasonably that the man survived, said His Honour in a reserved judgment, giving permission for the trustee to distribute the residue of Miss Millar’s estate on the footing that Mr. Robert Millar did not survive his sister.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 10
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147MAN POSSIBLE ’QUAKE VICTIM PRESUMED TO BE DEAD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 10
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