TREASURY WINDFALLS.
FROM WEALTHY ESTATES. unot'd Pi ess Assoniation —By Electric Telegraph ° Copyright.) (Australian Press Association., LONDON, SeptL 25. The Treasury has received three more great Avindfalis. Viscount Hambleden, late head of YV. H. Smith, bookstall holders, has left his estate of nearly £2,750,001). James Walker Oxley, a retired Leeds banker, recently died at the age of 94. He lived a ,i ©served life, and -people generally tvere not aware of his great riches. He left £2,774,541, of Avhich the Treasury gets- £1,126,000. Major Hugh Frederick Gref ton, late of the Bass BreAvery,' left £1,474,000, of which- the Treasury gets £520,000. Major Gre.tton, AA*hose will aa*ois . composed of ninety Avords, bequeathed everything to a brother, avlio is a. member of the House of Commons,
The Marquis of Lincolnshire left £77,486.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1928, Page 5
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