APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL
WELLINGTON LADY SUCCEEDS DEATH DUTIES CLAIM (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (United Pres- Association—By CableCopyright.] (Received 22, 12.5 p.m.) London, Jan. 22. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council allowed, with costs, an appeal by Mrs. Olive Finch, of Wellington, as executrix in the estate of her husband, Charles Edward Finch, versus the Commissioner of Stamp Duties respecting the Commissioner’s claim on £1982 for death duties. The. committee upheld the original judgment of the Chief Justice of New Zealand in the Supremo Court that the £1982 paid for alterations to Finch’s house was not a gift to his wife, but was expended t.o improve his home without the intention of evading death duties.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 31, 23 January 1929, Page 7
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