LONELY YOUNG EARL
INVITATION REJECTED. AVON CASTLE ECONOAIIES. LON DO V, Alay 20. The young Earl of Egmont, whose father was recejit’y killed iu a motor accident, refuses to leave Avon Castle, and has rejected invitations to stay with friends, says the Daily Mail. " ! The Into earl never understood how the value of the Egmont estates was I reduced from £500.000 to £300,0001 within the first'year of his tenure. Death duties and n capital sum re- j served for the dowager countcss, how ever, accounted for the drop, which' appalled the late earl, who determined. rigorously to economise. He sold the pictures and tried to scJJ the castle. He dismissed all the indoor servants, nnd instructed the sever. | gardeners to keep the grounds in per i feet oi’llcr, to attract protective buz | ers. The late earl’s son regularly she* I and sold rabbits on the 15,0r0-n«»re • estate. They also sold potatoes and i 1 other produce ir. order to koop the eapi-i tai intact arid l : \e on thp’i’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 125, 30 May 1932, Page 7
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