PROBATE DUTY PAID.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 4 March 1909, Page 2

PROBATE DUTY PAID.

The largest estate upon which probate duty was paid last month was in Otago. It amounted to £128,559 and was left by the late William Saunders. The list of the principal estates left in the various parts of the Dominion was as under:— Wellington. — Alexander Higgie £12.953, Francis George Tully £7,718, John Towmey £6,479, Mary A. S. Wilkinson £5,956, Samuel N. Bartlett £4,770, Rachael Bloustein £2,588, John Verry £2,314, Francis S. Lutz £1,805, Euphemia Limbrick £1,760, John Hiilier £1,702, Kezia Norton £1,570, Ebenezer Gray £1,330, Donald Mcßean £1,124, Georgina N. Kennaugh £1,103, Henry A. Tarrant £1,069. Auckland—James Miller £4,738, Lewis B. Ewen £3,838, William Percival £2,354; Tom Gillard £2,225, Alice Rimmer £2,072, Henry H. Gash £1,956, Mary Jane Harris £1,480, Harriet Woodcock £994, Elizabeth Davies £763, Henry Falls £660. ! >' Canterbury.—William Anderson £10,885, Alexander McLean £9,373, James Wallace £7,762, Elizabeth Alexander £2,232, William Smith -£1,313, William Harrington £1,263, Johann A. Tobeck £1,066, Alfred C. T. Brundell £1,012, Charles W. L. Barker £828, George Biddle £789, Catherine Stafford £520. - Otago—William Saunders £128,559, John Cameron £38,410, Joseph M. L. MoKay £10,283, Ann Jane Coombe £8,201, Annie E. Briggs £2,546, James Lambert £1,096, William McVenish £965, Isabella P. Johnson | £904, Margaret A. Douglas £844, Francis A. Cargill £835, Jane J. Baudinet £689, James Nairn £588, Elizabeth D. Hay £561. Hawke's Bay.—Hugh Campbell £79,410, Andrew McMahon £3,039, Lena E. Tabuteau £948, James Magili , £736, Patrick J. O'Rourke £578. | Poverty Bay.—John A. Harding £28,060, William Currie £5,300, Catherine Aston £1,494, R. McK. Campbell £654. Blenheim.—James B. Stirling £2,086. New Plymouth.—Charles Govenlock £1,398. Southland.—Stephen Watson £4,615,

Joseph Johnson £1.107, Thomas Cooper £868. Westland.—Antonio Jose £903. Nelson.—John Petterson £2,556, Elizabeth A. Warnock £846.