The. New South Wales estate of the late Mr G. E. Fairfax, chairman of directors of John Fairfax and Sons, proprietors of the “Sy r dnev Morning Herald,” is valued at £747,937. Subject to certain charitable bequests, the estate is to be equally divided between the testators, his brothers. John Hubert Fairfax and Dr Edward W. Fairfax, his sister, Miss Mary Fairfax, and his nephew, Mr Warwick Oswald Fairfax. The testators’ shares in the “Sydney Morning Herald” are disposed of in a. similar manner. The charitable bequests include £IOOO to each of the three chief Sydney hospitals, £SOO each to the Sailors’ Home and the Roy r al Naval House. There are many dormant volcanoes in the Caucasus. After a long period of inactivity one near Baku erupted, shooting out flames more than 200 feet high.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19154, 21 August 1930, Page 9
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