N.Z. WOMAN’S APPEAL
UPHELD BY PRIVY COUNCIL CLAIM FOR DEATH DUTIES (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 12.46 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday. The judicial committee of the Privy Council allowed, with costs, the appeal by Mrs. Olive Finch, of Wellington, as executrix of her husband, Charles Edmund Finch, versus the Commissioner of Stamp Duties, respecting the Commissioner’s claim on £1,982 for death duties. The committee did not hold with the original judgment of the Chief Justice of the New Zealand Supreme Court, but held that the £1,982 paid for alterations to the late Mr. Finch’s house was not a gift to his wife, but was expended to improve his home without any intention of evading death duties.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 9
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