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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 11

Outside'the legal 'profession thero aro few persona who .know how inquisitorial arc the methods of the Government in dealing with the estate's of deceased persons and how arbitrary the assessnients are in many cases, but wo ("Taranaki Herald") think the following constitute almost a record. The executors had sw'orii in the usual way to the inventory of cifeots, and to their surpriso wore called upon to account for a spraying nuinp and a few fowls.. It appears the Stamp Department had been carefully examining bills sont in, and found that a spraying pump costing a fow shillings had been supplied to deceased, and also somo fowl wheat, ami the Department wanted to know where the spray pump was and whore the fowls, for which the wheat was purchased, wore now residing. It turned out that the spray pump had been disposed of diivinc; the testator's lifotimo, and the fowls had been either baked or boiled during the siimo poriod, and tho executors therefore doclino! lo pay any increased tax for their valuft-