VALUABLE ESTATE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19960, 19 November 1934, Page 2

VALUABLE ESTATE

RANGITOTO MURDERS Victims of the Rangitoto murders a few weeks ago. the Davenport family have left an estate valued at £20,000, states the “Auckland Star." The will of the late Mr German Mortin Davenport, aged 70, father of the family, has been filed in the Supreme Court for the granting of probate and sworn at between £14,000 and £15,000. Under the will of the senior Davenport, a life interest in his estate was left to his wife, and on her death to their two sons. Mr and Mrs Davenport, senior, were proved to have been killed at the same time. Edward Lancashire Davenport, aged 28, who died in the Te Kuiti Hospital two days after his parents had been murdered, and who was also the victim of Henare Hona’s murders, was the sole survivor until his death, and came into the whole estate. His brother had been killed before him. On the death of Edward Davenport the entire estate descended to an uncle and aunt of Edward’s, Mr Albert Edward Davenport, of Tallong, New South Wales, and Mrs J. Stanford, a widow, of Wellington. Already Mr , A. E. Davenport, of New South Wales, with the consent of Mrs Stanford, has filed an application for letters of administration. There seems little doubt that they will share the estate equally.