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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7448, 24 May 1911, Page 7

Fortvmatue street, Vogcltowu, "will be close*! tor a few days owing to drainage work. ' ' ' ' o, ' ' An extra car is now run on tiio Seatoun line, leaving tlie terminus there at 7.16 a-ni. ■ Clients of the Gas Company aro notified that the offices and showrooms will close at 1 p.m. to-day. • The judicial committee, of.. the; Privy Council—the Supreme Tribunal of . Um-pire-lias dismissed the appeal of the Commissioner of Stamps for New Booth Wales, against a judgment of the Supreme Court disallowing a claim preferred by him against the executors of a Mr Bryncs, who died in 1939, in respect of certain, advances made' by him in hia lifetime to his two eons. .In addition to personal estate amounting to about £10,030 he possessed land worth about £30.C00. Some yeans before hie death he bought house property m . Sydney, which the Commissioners valued at £7133, and gave these properties to his sons, both of whom were living with him at the time. He bought the properties, and paid rates as well as the costs of repairs in the names of his eons One son was living at home when the father died, bnt tile other had married ! and started a home of his own. .’he question at issue was whether the value of these houses was to oo'lncluded in the testator’s estate. ~ I