DEATH DUTIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13656, 12 April 1915, Page 5

DEATH DUTIES.

MRS TOWNEXD'S ESTATE CERTIFIED AT £796,448. The total number .of deceased persons' estates, as finally eertined for death duties tor last month, was 350, the largest being that of Aimie V^aayle Townend, Canterbury district, who died on May 16, 1914. The Commissioner of •Stamps has finally ceftitied the estate at the huge figure of £Y96,448. The following estates were of the. amount ol' £1000 aud upwards: — Wellington district : John M'Rae £81,327. Wm. Fredk. MLaren £78,673, Waller Perry £36,085, Wm. Osborne Williams £32,157. Alexander Sample £26,550, Sydney Diamond £2i,5d8, Eugene Joseph O'Connor £18 3 9Ub, 1. Lowes £12,4_14, Wm. Swadling £12,124. Thos. Kilsby £11,424, Alexander Stephen Bennett £9836. James Meehan £8686, John Sinclair £6004, Wm. Moriarty £5404, Richard Ching £5389, Win. Holder £5381 Charles Philip Williams £"5201, Geo. Henry Davies £4976, James Stephens £4247, John Small. £4231. K. Smith £3720. Augustus Hamilton £3256, Louisa .Symons £3241, Leslie James Thomson £3215, David Thompson £2809, Henry Morison £2708 Elizabeth M'Gill £2483, Thomas Bevan £2351, Wm. Geo. Smith £2215, Geo. Richardsou £2093, Edith 'Palmer Taylor £2000. Alice Williamson £1645? Phoebe Fuller £1596, Simon Dry'den. £1510, John Young £1440, Emma Pickersgill £1392, Francis Sandilands £1342, James *Montgomerie £1221, John Win. Cbchrane £1216, x,llen Durham £1150, Thomas Dickson £1110, Melinda Jane! M'Nei). £1047, Agnes Richards £1047-. • Auckland district : Thomas Wyllie £14,029, Ellen Pollock £13,240, Michael Turney £9946, ' John Charles Smith £9474, James 'Forrest £8779, John Harris M.Ta\v £7090, Matthew Hanley Hutchinson £6766, Wm. Henry Grace £3662, Ina Bruce £3271, Wm. Hamley £3358, Emma- Rubbard £2919, Richard Gresson Matthews £2625, Charles Geo. Davis £2621. Thos. Charles Jones £2086, Robert Vernon £1969, James Kathleen £1932, Joseph Preest £1862, Edwin Alfred Hambr.ook £1811, John Armour £1773, John Hill £1451, Walter Guise £1411, Henry Ben-idge £1304, Georgo Bacdn £1274, Wm. John M'Cullough £1183, Robi. Crawford £1132, Mary Ryan £1107, Charles Fredk. Partington £1000.

: Canterbury : Annie Quayle Townend £796,448, James Guild £95,429, Wm. Reed £!_2,850, Siirah Louisa Smith £12,980, Janet Murchisort £10,419, "Margaret Cpnnel £6441, John Brown £5156, lidmond Joseph x-oirer £4373, James Langdale £4014, Wm. -Fleming £2275, Win. Cameron £1849, Wm. Jameson; £1782, Reuben Ogden £1499, Henry Lee £1495, Richard Frank Bradlgy-' £1409, Arthur Wm. Barber £1226)Geo. Blanchard Wbodhead £1211, Hemy John Gaze £1151, Jane Spencer £1096, Robt. Robinson £1054, Frank Benjamfn. £1047, Wm. Gordon Scott £1028, Robtl Cuthbert £1003.

Otago : Thos. Wm. Blandford £28,---370, Moore Graham £4652, Isabella Fox £3619, Margaret Golding £3125, Francis Deans £2261, Jessie Ma-ckay £1834, Susanna White Joachim £1727, Emily Lawrence £1274. Sarah Marsden Smith. £1217, Tlios. ' Murray £1212, Charlotte Tyre £1034, Margaret Honora Strang £1029, Alexander Romeo Pollock £1008, John Stephen £1005. Southland : James Hamilton £26,787, Geo. Logan Robertson £6080, Hngh Cameron £3372, Wm. Mollison £2953, Thos. Mclntyre Jb^6l7, Thos. Carswoll £1971, Michael Fitzgerald £1549, Jane Irvine. Mitchell Smith £1213, Henrietta .May Boyce £1208, John M'Kay £1112, John Ross Donald £1012. Margaret Watt £1002. Ne\r Plymouth : Margaret Cole-man £3970, Charles Stephney Gatton £2271. Nora Rothery £1657.

Hawke's Bay: John Brown £30,282, Wm. Mulholland £1374. ■ Mary .M'Aulcv £1104. . : '

Poverty Bay : Ernest Ilov • Abbot £586. ' :

Marlborough : James Qane £9253, Joseph Gafrett £4413, Francis Fredericks £1323, Angus . Cameron £1048, Chas. John Radcliffe £1011.

Nelson : Mary Ann. Korgari £3666, Johann Diedrich Beuke £3483, Thos. Gowk-nd Eden £2196^ Lochart Dobbie Easten £1572.