LATE SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 9 November 1934, Page 6

LATE SIR JOSEPH WARD.

DAUGHTER’S PETITION TO PARLIAMENT. HEAVY DEATH DUTIES. fßy Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 9. “In consideration of my father’s services to the country and the disastrous effect the depression has had on his estates I am petitioning for a rebate of the exorbitant death duties, approximately £70,000, paid to the Government,” states Mrs Eileen V r ood, daughter of the late Sir Joseph Ward, in a petition which Mr J. Hargest presented to the House of Representatives today. Petitioner explains that she is allowed £3OO a year out of the estate, which is valued by the Public Trustee at £300,000, and her family have agreed to her receiving £3 a week from the rental of a residence at Heretaunga in which she cannot afford to live.

The proportion of death duties attributable to petitioner’s share is £12,150 and in consequence her income has so diminished that she finds it impossible io meet expenses incurred during the two years Sir Joseph Ward was Prime Minister and she took her mother’s place as hostess. While realising there is no legal claim, petitioner adds that she reluctantly petitions Parliament on account of the difficulties in which she is placed.