ESTATE OF £20,000

Northern Advocate, 10 November 1934, Page 13

ESTATE OF £20,000

VICTIMS OF MURDERS. [Special to “Northern Advocate”! AUCKLAND. This Day. Victims of the Rangitoto murders a few weeks ago. have- left an estate valued at £20.000. The will of the late Mr German Mortin Davenport, aged 70, father of the family, has been filed in the Supreme Court for the granting of probate, and sworn between £14,000 and £15,000. Under the will of the senior Davenport, a life interest in his estate was left to his wife, and on her death to their two sons. Mr and Mrs Davenport. Snr., were proved to have been killed at the same time. Edward Lancashire Davenport, aged j 28, who died in the Te Kuiti Hospital j two days after his parents had been murdered, and who was also the victim of Henare Hona’s murders and was the sole survivor, until his death, and came into the whole estate. His brother had been killed before him. On the death of Edward Davenport the entire estate' descended to an uncle and aunt of Edward’s, Mr Albert Edward Davenport, of Tallong, New South Wales, and Mrs J. Stanford, a widow, of Wellington. Already Mr A. E. Davenport, of New South Wales, with the consent of Mrs Stanford, has filed an application for letter of administration. There seems little doubt that they will share the estate equally.