DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8453, 2 December 1907, Page 8

DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES.

Per Press Association WELLINGTON, December 2. The following are the largest estates of deceased persons finally certified for stamp duty last month:— Auckland district—Alfred Price £40,779, Robt. Gibbons £37,920, John Goldsworthy £8986, Thomas Radford £3798, Annie Babe £3701, Thomas Cranwell £2604, John McLean £2579, Harriet Wade £1434, Cecil Dawson £1153, Catherine Dell £1217. Wellington district—Wm; R. E. Brown £26,745, Charles Stuart Menteath £11,077, Thomas Waters £9019, George Fullford £8390, Thomas Smith £7237, Alex. G. Gordon £6485, Robert Watson £5742, Joshua Goodfellow £5392; Thomas Whiffen £4780, Arthur Diamond £3713, Andrew Campbell £3411, Annie Rice £3347, Gottfried Nitschtse £3322, Edwin Wakelin £2932, Taare Tahua £2851, George Springer £1617, James Martin £1584, Patrick Haggerty £1556, David Lindsay £1549, Eliza Liddle £1130. Canterbury — Elizabeth Garrick £18,875, Charles Faulknor £15,726, Thomas Allen £7949, Marianne Allison £4993, Caroline Dearsley £2880, Mary Ann Smith £1730, Edwin Wroot £1209 Otago—Thos. Macauley £4159, George Aitchison £3641, Joseph Garside £2467, Robert Mac Guard £1818, Robert McCaw £1493, Helen Sheppard £1136. Nelson—Frances Pasley £1556, Charlotte Gipps £1104. New Plymouth—William Gower £2294, Thomas Good £2426, Mary Noonan £1918. Westland—Tews Lowery £2257. Southland — Malcolm Colquhoun £1561, James Sutherland £1502.

Despite the severe handicap caused by her broken wrist, the Mayoress, Mrs Essex, has been most energetic in her search for gold in aid of the Hosiptal fund. The sums on her list now total £95. so that she is well within sight of the £100 she set out to attain. . In a telegram to Mr W. T. Wood, M.H.R., relative to opening the telephone exchange day and night, the Premier states the extra fee will bfi. £1 per year, the same as charged in other centres. Mr Wood is in communication with the Premier on the subject of the extension, and with the idea of arranging one or' two details with regard to the payment of fees. Suggested plans of a new railway station for Wellington have been prepared. There is no intention, says the Post, of going on with them at present —in fact, no vote appears on the Estimates for that purpose —but now that the Government has decided to take over the Manawatu Railway, it is apparent that a new station will, in a year or two, become an absolute necessity. The suggestion is th'at the new station, which would, of course, combine' the Manawatu and Thorndon stations, should face Bunny Street, with four platforms, each some 600 feet long, running at right angles parallel with Fcatherston Stpil "'id Waterloo Quay, and cach P'c'ded wi:h a verandah for its full width.