BIG DEATH DUTIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10767, 16 May 1911, Page 4

BIG DEATH DUTIES.

(Prat Press Association.)

Wellington, May 16. The Post states- that- 'there [appears to he every probability that the .revenue derived this year from stamp r duty payable on estates of deceased persons' and succession duties will constitute something in the way of a record.' : No' official figures am available,: but it: is : understood that on one estate recentlj' assessed at over a quarter of a million the amount paid was well over *£sojooo and that on another estate (in the North Island) there is every prospect of the revenue lioinc increased In from £ioi),non to £-200.00n_