DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14221, 12 February 1917, Page 7

DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES

During the month of January, tin ! estates of 332 deceased, persons were cer '. tilled for death duties. ' The largest wa i -that of James Walker (Wellington £62,614. ,The pi'incipal estates in t,h< several districts are : Wellington : James Walker £62,614 Edward Charles Evelyn Mills £59,756 Thomas Hawke £30,121, Harriet Ellei Underwood £29,183, Jamea Bruce £16, 1 769, ..Agnes Millicent Forbes £15,565 Alexander McLeod £13,446, Thoma | Francis Walsh £11,817, j Edwin Charle: I Batkin £8206, John William Copithorn. '£7436, John Rutherford 1 £7234, Jama i Henry Escott £5659, James Browi '< £5518, Joseph Powell Savage £5273 John Morrison £5044, Timothy McCar .thy £4981, Sarah Irwin £4718, Danie Thurston £4574, John Ellmers £4535 Alexander Bruce £3500, Michael Josepi Walsh £3456, Mary Ann Young. £3372 James Towers £3337, Charles James Foi lett £3321, Richard Bernard C. J. Coif) £3088. George Gibson £2933, Edward Alexander Beard £2798, Alfred Wood roffe £2701, James Pirie £2690, Petei Smith £2644, Catherine Laresia Gaunstad £2605, William Hugh Ward £2363, David Lang,;. £2176, Alfred George Pulling £2019, Kathleen Campbell £1990, Lillian Gray Pollock £1968, Frederick Atchison '£1898, John Pullar £1870, Zoe Charlotte Levin £1784, Laura Mary Louisa Gundy £1754, Joseph Avery £1683, Earl George Duncan McMaster £1670, Jeannie Grimmer Compton £1659, Frederick Henry Carrick £1571, Cyrus Scipio Smith £1548, Jane Massey £1521, Jane La Roche £1518, Ann Sanders £1490, William Nettleship £1377, Margaret Glass £1347, Betty Sutoliffe £130_J, Alicia Catherine Jones £1211, William Herbert Lindsay, £1148, William Otto Hasse £1136. Auckland : George Helsop £45,485, John Henry O'Neill £15.917, William Ag-new £10,077, Alexander Sutherland £10,968, Jane Sutherland £9842 James McKnight £7157, Charles Stuart Ross £6741, Elizabeth Hilditch £5603, Frank Obed Oldfield £5270,, Francis Brodie £4136, George iSpence £3380, Andrew Martin Nelson £3315, William Thome Buckland £2776, Ellen Emma Lam^ bourne £2770, William Johnson Burnett £2587, Robert Entrican £2326, William Fitzpatrick £2325, William Garrett £1739, Allan Wilkinson £140$, Robert Melville £1384, Julia Susanna Wrigley £1304, Florence Cecilia Griffin £1293, John Taw £1193, Alfred Perkins £1167 John Gordon £1145, John' William Gorrie £1005. Canterbury : Michael Moore £12,542, Richard Dulieu £11,545, Felix Arthur Douglas Cox £8658, Edward Harris £8165, Robert Marshall Creswell, £4431, James Flemming £4420, William Morriss £4377, Rebecca Mary ' Hibbard £4291, David McGregor £2967, Mary Letitia McGregor £2934, Catherine Mcintosh £2452, Thomas Kennedy £2173, William Glynan £2164, Hannah Tavloi £1535, Michael Hamilton Soott £1202, Richard Francis Atkinson £1100, Mark Burridge £1032. Otago: William Shand £32,868, Isabel bsephine Morrisby £16*735, Henry Law rence Keenan £6761, Janet Stenhoiisc £5279, Francis Sleeman Reed £4139, Lancelot Finch £3494, Catherine Inglis £2319, Thomas Lee £1672, Hanry McKay Paterson £1484, Joseph 'Ferris £1357, Lancelot Shadwell Jennings £1127,' Willi&m Hussey Davidson £1103, David Frew £1024. I Southland: Alexander Smith £6198, Jajie McKay £6065, Richard Irving '£3162, James Harper £1907,, Robert Caldwell Lindsay £1972, William Robert Alox. Murdock £1397, James McEwen £1053, John Joseph Burke £1005. Poverty Bay: Isabel Rachel Black £15,196. Hawke's Bay : William Francis £2609. New Plymouth : Albert Oracrorl £8393, Julia Coad £2677, Jane Rawson £2345, William Earp £2006, Heta Karira £1500. Nelson: Hugh Kenyon £2014, Edward Webby £1969. | Westland: Christina Preston £1954, i James Joyce £1653.

Private advice has been received that Gunner E. I. Prime, of Calliope road, Devonport, ' has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the battle of the Somme. "Gunner Prime, who is the fourth son of Mir F. Prime, of Karangahape road, is 22 years old. He was in Egypt for some months prior .to being transferred to France. During the early part of December six women chauffeurs were to be employed as drivers of the Royal mail vans in London. If the experiment proves a success' a large number of women chauffeurs will ' be wanted, so that many of the 300 men employed oh this work* car be released. The women will wear the uniform of the Women's Volunteer Reserve, and are to receiye 35s a week and a bonus varying from 3s to 12s 6d a month, according to general efficiency.