Evidence of the ‘‘pound of flesh” which the Government demands from estates by way of death duty is furnished by the figures relative to the Dunedin city properties recently sold on account of the executors of the will of Miss Helen Mure, an absentee property owner whose death in Great Britain was reported recently, states the Otago Daily Times. The gross return from the sales of several city properties totalled approximately £75,000, of which sum over £30,000 will be annexed by the Commisioner of Taxes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 5
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