STAMP DUTY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8828, 3 September 1914, Page 3

STAMP DUTY

DECEASED PERSONS’ ESTATES LAST MONTH’S LIST. Of the estates of deceased persons finally certified for stamp duty during August, the largest was that of Francis Digby Neave, Canterbury, £114,344. Following are the estates of £SOO or over in the several districts : WELLINGTON. £ James Currie 26,407 Emily Jane Shannon 15,023 Arthur Dermer 11,073 Mary Anna Robinson 5.350 James Burns 4.617 Olliver Death 3,558 James Brown _ 3,557 Catherine McGregor 3,218 Orton Stevens 2,975 William Spencer Peel 2,433 Sarah Henderson 2,117 Ernest Hugh Quereo 2,107 Eliza Ann Coolo 2,006 Matthew Mackay 1,858 John Thompson Lightfoot 1,708 William Mitchell 1,392 Harryet Pryor 1.218 Robert Miller 1,032 John Gottleib Hartwig Lankow 1,023 William Henry Wakelin 969 Jane Elizabeth Thomas 940 Edith M. A. Johnston 895 •James Gordon 861 Alexander G. Stewart 810 Henry Spencer 775 Walter James Thompson 746 Matthew H. Jack 696 Albert R. Whittaker 644 Anthony Wall 634 Alice Hedley i 624 Susan Band 584 George B. Corner 566 Henry Isaac Isaacs 555 Sophia Maria Jell ; 543 Samuel F. J. Smith ' 507 Auckland.—Sarah H. Souter £14,103, Joseph B. Kennedy £10,613, Henry Goulstone £10,284, Samuel Draffin £8737, Frederick Sing X 4629, Margaret Graham £4682, Thomas Hilditch £4498, John Browne £4341, Frederick I. Foote £3542. Thos. Gibbs £2932, Jaa. La Trobe £2224, Frank J. Matthews £2222, Henry Kerr £2132, John W. Dimock £2102, Robert Guthrie Hutton £1977, John Shaw £1766, Mary Ann Murdoch £2132, Walter Crisp £1607, Thos. Henry Green £1592, Geo. Duff Laing £1486, Amy A. P, Silk £1234, Eliza Snowshall £1233, Marie Gertrude Williams £IOBB, Robt. Sanderson Latta £lO3l. Geo. Lee Corbett £B2O. Arthur Harry Phillips £789, Samuel Shongman £737, Margaret Graham £6Bl, Albert Reed £671, Andrew Eulf, £652, Hartley Webster £529. Canterbury.—Francis Digby Neave £114,344, Joseph Stalker £21,610, Frances Anne Woolcombe £7677, George, William Doak £5521, William Glass Notmann £5045, Ada Taylor £3730, James Peter £3699, Kyward Hawden £3569, William Hodgson £2701, Richard Bristow £2500 Cyril Holm Biss £2427, George Skeen Higham £2398, William Mowbray £1922, Harriett Henryetta Knubley £1919, Esther Matilda Collins£lo7s, Heinrich Bearman £794, Alexander M. Eyes £761, Annie Lawford Cornwall £717, Cornelius * Henry Bailey £644; ' Bwen Taylor £516. , Otago.—Allan Boyd £96,334, John Halliday Scott £17,129, John Bathgate £14.241, Alexander Reid £BO4I, Maria Connolly £8459, Isabella Blackwood £2341, Patrick Martin £1682, Emily Keast £1224, Alexander Blair £llsl, William Mercer £833, Thomas Barron Conway £787, Jane Kinnear £7ll, Charles Salter £7lO, William Albert Wilden £6lO, Peter Omand £6OB, Marion Young Calder £692, Catherine McSkimming £563, Isabella Biesett Pata-ick £534, Patrick Ryan £SOB. Poverty ■ Bay. Percival Barker, £43,146, Patrick A. F.- Martin £4464, Susan- P’arker £3464, Thomas Walter Eevell £649. New Plymouth—Alex. Kerr £2823, James Robertson Duncan £IBB7, Mary Ann Cunningham £1045, Thomas Clarke £998. Hawke’s Bay.—Thomas Torr £3160, May S. MacFarlane £553. Nelson.—Fanny Spicer, £4830, Vernon A. Bernard £1779,, William King £1173, George M. Rowbotham £1149, George A. Macquarie £699. Westland. Gerhard H. Diedrichs £22,499, William Duncan ■ £6756, John McKay £2879, Francis Burns £852. Southland. —Alex, ' Pullar £10,749, John McKenzie £2091, Margaret Orkney £603.