TO SAVE DEATH DUES.
DUKE OF RICHMOND’S PLAN
Nearly two centuries ago, before Captain Cook’s visit to Australia, the third Duke of Richmond planted 70,000 beech trees on his estate at Goodwood, near Chichester. Two Australians, Messrs Sillick, a Victorian, and Green, are hauling out the beeches by means of caterpillar tractors and trailers, working sometimes 96 hours a week, incfaiding Sundays, to the vast amazement of the Sussex rustics, who have never seen anvthing like it before. Faced with the necessity of cash to pay death duties, the eighth Duke sold the beeches to J. H. and F. W. Green, of Chesterfield, for £45,000. Eight years are allowed for the removal of the timber. The Greens engaged the two Australians to take charge of the haulage of the beech logs to the mill.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 206, 28 July 1930, Page 10
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134TO SAVE DEATH DUES. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 206, 28 July 1930, Page 10
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