TREASURY GETS THREE WINDFALLS.
COLLECTS DEATH DUTIES ON FORTUNES.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.-—Copyright.) (Received September 26. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. The Treasury has received three more great windfalls. To-day Viscount Hambleden, late head of the firm of W. H. Smith, bookstall holders, left estate worth nearly £2.750,000. James Walker Oxley, a retired Leeds banker, recently died at the age of 94. He lived a reserved life and people generally were unaware of his great riches. He left £2,774.541, of which the Treasury gets £1,126,000. Major Hugh Frederick Gretton, late of Bass Brewery, left £1,474,000, of which the Treasury received £520,000. Major Gretton, whose will was composed of 90 words, bequeathed everything to his brother, who is a member of the House of Commons. The Marquis of Lincolnshire left £77,456. —United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18576, 26 September 1928, Page 1
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