EXCHEQUER WINDFALLS
BIG DEATH DUTY SUMS Estate valued at £750.639 with net personalty £690,69.1, so far as could be ascertained, was left by Lady Aborconway, who died in February last, aged 78. The estate duty and interest paid amounted to £251,298. Lady Aberconway left £2OO to her secretary, Miss Agnes Louisa Cole, and, subject to Lord Aberconway’s appro val, 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 wns payable include the following:— Value of Duty Estate. Parable. £ ’£ The Earl of Inchcape 2.124.707 .1.027,417 Sir Georgo Alfred Wills 10,000 000 4,000,000 Sir It. irousU'ii . 6.000,000 1,500.000 Mr. ,T. W. Oxley . 2,771,511 .1,126,000 Viscount Ha mb 1e - den 2,700 000 1,080,000 Sir Lucas Eustratio Balli 2.290.074 1.000.000 S’r Vernon Wills . 2,100,000 1.000.000 Maior Andrew Coats 2.797,765 1.124.762 Lord Ashton .. .. 9.500 000 4.750,000 Lord Dewar .. .. 5,000,000 2,000,000 Dinke of Northumland 2.510,000 1,255.000 Air. Bernhard Baron 4,944,820 2.115,000 Air. W. A., Coals . 3.936,® 1.580,818
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 9
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