DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14281, 1 August 1908, Page 10

DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES.

-IE QUESTION OF VALUATION.

(From Oun Own CoiwESFosnEXT.)

AYELi,I.\'(;TO.N\ .July 31. The Leader of thy Opiiositiou' roceut.lv drew attention to the fact that there wa"s no appeal from the valuation put upon the estates of deceased persons by the Stamp Doirartmo.nl. Ho mentioned two eases Unit hail eon* wider his own notice in .Auckland, in which injustiie was done to the beneficiaries in coneoqneue? of this. In one ease a farm wi.s valued at £25 an acre, but- the Stamp Department refused 1o accept the valuation, and sent its own valuer, who put up the valuation to tctvrccMi £36 mid Mi per acre. The widow bad to pav duty on that valuation, there being „ 0 appeal Another ease was that of a man who IwuMit land at under £3000. He died n comparatively short time afterwards, and the hcnftncisrit* of the cslate were coinixdlcd to pay stamp duty on £9000. When the lOslimaWs were under discussion in the House this afternoon Mr reverted to the subject and ibe Prime -Minister made a satisfactory reply. He said the Government intended to int.rodiire- legislation this sty-ion making provision for the right, of anpeal in owoa where tiro beneficiaries wro disaiigfied vrrth the vaiuaiwa