EXCHEQUER WINDFALLS
BIG DEATH DUTY SUMS. Estate valued at £750,629 with net personalty £690,691, so far as could be ascertained, was left by Lady Aberconway, who died in February last, aged 78. The estate duty and interest paid amount to £251,298. Lady Aberconway left £2OO to her secretary, Miss Agnes Louisa Cole, _ and, subject to Lord Aberconway’s approval, to her general trustees a sum not exceeding £lOOO for distribution among servants. Lord Aberconway is chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company. Other estates in recent years on which heavy duty was payable include the fol-
lowing:— A Value of Duty Estate Payable £ ■£ The Ear] of, Inchcape .. 2,124,7*7 1,027,447 Sir George Alfred Wilis 10,000,’000 4,000,000 Sir K. Houston ........ 6,000,000 J,500,000 Mr. J. W. Oxley 2,774,541 1,126,000 Viscount Hambleden ... 2,700,000 1,0'80,000 Sir Lucas Eustratlo Balli 2,290,074 1,000,000 Sir Vernon Wilis 2,100,000 1,000,000 Major Andrew Coats ... 2,797,765 1,124,762 Lord Ashton 9,500,000 4,75'0,000 Lord Dewar 5,-0*0,000 2,000,000 Duke of Northumberland 2,510,000 1’255,000 Mr. Bernhard Baron .... 4,944,820 2,115,000 Mr. W. A. Coats 3,936,08'5 1,580,818
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 9
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168EXCHEQUER WINDFALLS Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 9
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