PAGE MILLIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 27 September 1913, Page 5

PAGE MILLIONS

—— AN AUSTRALIAN CLAIMANT. (Pbess Association. —Copyright.) (Rec. 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, This DayGeorge Horton Morris, a claimant to the Page estat-e, and on whose behalf a, company was recently floated, departs for England on October 2nd. A commission has been appointed by the Imperial Parliament to investigate the ownership. • - (The Page estates, for whici*. theTe are several claimants, consist of enormous commons on the outskirts cvf London. The value of the ■ various properties is assessed at anvthing between £50,000,000 and £150,000,000, and -they yield -an income of about £2,000,000 a year.. Some .• of the finest residential districts in London have been erected on the site of the waste commons, a_nd the estate includes also a-suburban area, which will increase enormously in value within, the next few-years. Harrow is the natural centre of the estate, which includes practically all the land yithin a line drawn from the Marble Arch t'p to Edgeware-road, through Hendon _ to Elstree Station, across to the outskirts of Rickmansworth, thence to a pointfew miles south of Uxbridge and baok to Hvde Park by Southall, Acton, and Totting Hill. The original owner of the property was Henrv Page, who c' ed over ninety years age, leaving a w:ll by which all he possessed was tied Jp foT r.inety years.) , .