PROBATE DUTY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1845, 3 September 1913, Page 11

PROBATE DUTY.

DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES. The following is the list of deceased persons' estates of £500 and over computed for probate duty during the month of August:— WELLINGTON. £ John Bryce John Colquhoun 25,675 James Joseph Devine 8,816 Eliza Parkinson 3,871 John Edward Evans 3,457 Kobert Davies 3,244 Archibald Kelly 2,124 Michael Urcenc ••••• 2,118 John Frederick Ilockstrow 1,997 Malcolm Crawford 1,941 Ernest Raymond Willis 1,650 Julia Sinclair 1,504 l'eter August Erickson 1,334 Lvttelton Fitzgerald 1,320 Martha Compton Thomas Trahair Roberts 753 Beatrice Parris Richmond ... 630 Alexander Maisnuth 612 Charles Haines Hunt 569 John Keid Cooper 537 Nicholas U'rigg 510 Canterbury.—Richard Holland, £15,985; Samuel Alford Bristol, £11,145; James C'obonrg Tipping, £9350; Edwin Butchers, £7575; Hcnrick Schaffer, £11633; Ellic White. £6434; Beatrice Malet, £3469 ; Alfred Shepherd, £3276; Edward Gorman, £2448; George Pearson, £1801; ' Harriet Barnes, £1749; Annio Carter, £1313; Isabella Marshall, £1286; Robert Fleming, £1400; Samuel Pearce, £1200; Annie Louisa Oakey, £1177; George Howard Darwin, £1115; Henry Seholield, £1108; John Dutton, £1107; Elizabeth Ann Walton, £906; Albert Porter, £791; 'Margaret Stack, £650. Otago.—John Thomas Wright, £79,970; John Mead, £6555; William Smith, £5465; Robert Patrick M'Leod, £4826; 'Madeline Robinson, £4184; Thomas Louden, £2671; Stephen Foxwell, £2172; William' Lindsay Christie, £2026; Timothy Casey, £1629; John Smail, £1163; John Stewart Anderson, £997; Peter Murdock, £954; Martha Calder, £920; Julius Ottmar Feil, £914; Mary Grant Anderson, £6'41; Alexander Pickard, £585; Patrick M'Evoy, £583. Auckland.—lsaac Butterworth, £9604; John Anton Subritsky,< £4657; Henry Stewart, £4519; Ellon Potter, £3781; William Gibson Hae, £2758; Edwin Alfred Hutc'hings, £2702; Samuel, £2546; Eliza Billington, £2528: Lilias Maud Fielder, £2220; Elizabeth Jane M'Naughton, £2031; William Jones, £1905; Alfred George Hudspith, £1653 ; Rupert Maurice Smith, £1454; Cecilia . Marshall, £1449; George Arthur Bowman, £1266; Charlotte Fletcher, £1176; Susannah Wilcockson, £1113; Annie Moloney, £1072; Man- Ann Riddell, £1033: Elizabeth Wilkinson, £983; Ellen 'Bennett, £931; Charles George Lee, £958; • Robert Hefford, £783: Thomas Hunter Crosbie, £721; David Knibb, £615'; Jan Johanseii, £613; Thomas Handfy, £543. Poverty Bav. —Florence Violet Barker, £5185. " , . , Now / .Plymouth.—Joseph Frederick I'easo, .£70,993; Adolphus Kyngdon, £4117; Patrick O'Reilly, £3494: John Callaghan, £1826; John Luke,'£ls37 ; John M'Leod, £656; Harriet Halso, £SSO; Elizabeth Ann Allum, £500. Hawkc's Bay.—Frederick John Tiffen, £40,539; Richard Wood Halso, £1272; Hans Jorgensen Bai, £1110; Edgar George Lys, £917; Peter Ludwig Larsen, £733; John William Mills, £510. Southland. —John Thomson, £21.542; John M'lntyre, • £9491; George Froggatt, £7680; George MacKenzio, £2940; James O'Kane, £2578: Charlotte E. Ronald, £2294; James Duncan, £1520; George;Dawson,. £1030; Henry Hirst, £835. Marlborough.—James Thomas Dalton, £13,730; Eliza Day, £1874; Henfy Fleetwood Bonnington, £1782; John Taylor, £722; Francis Fredericks, £602. Nelson.—Alexander Brown, £18,573; John Stuart Wratt, £13,230; Austin Herbert Bisley, £9756; George Page, £4188. Westland. —Arthur Mairs, £774. PUBLIC SERVICE APPEAL BOARD. — ♦— ' OFFICIAL REPORT.. At tho conclusion of the sittings of the Public Service Board of Appeal yesterday, the following statement of tho business transacted was issued to the press:— Tho members of the respective Boards of Appeal in connection with tho. Public Servico Act, viz., Messrs. Peter Barr I (chairman) ,and J. H. Richardson (nominated by the Government to act in t.]«v caso of all Departments); Mr. A. llill (elected representative of the Telegraph and Telephone Departments); Mr. F. M. Scully (elected to represent the Postal Department), and Messrs. A. Marryatt and'-J. F. Mouat (elected to re j present tho General Service) met in Wellington on August 29, and sat until September, for the purpose of considering matters of procedure in connection- with the carrying on of the work of the board. Among other matters, decisions were arrived at as follow: — 1. Mr. H. Gerard was appointed act-ing-secretary and stenographer to tho board. 2. That in so far as the classification appeals are concerned, tho sittings of tho board be closed to the public and press, but that members or representatives of tho Public Servico bo admitted by ticket, such tickets to be obtained /r»m tho chairman through the secretary. Deliberations of tho board, after the' liearing of evidence is closed, to bo held in private. / 3. That tho question of whether copies of the answer of the Commissioner (Res- 101) bo sent to appellants bo decided by the board as each case arises, and that when copies are sent the appellants bo informed that, if they so desire, they may appear, or be represented by "a fellow-officer, before tho board. 4. That when appellants apply to bo heard by the board the requests be decided upon their merits. 5. That cases of appeal under Seotioii 56 of the Act (relating to questions of misconduct, etc.) be heard with open doors, unless, in tho opinion of the board, tho circumstances are such as to render an open Court undesirable, and that the appellant ha\-o tho right to bo represented by counsel or agent. 6. That tho board, in addition to meeting in Wellington, will hold sittings iii Dunedin, Christchurch, and Auckland,' and elsewhere as may bo decided upon from time to time. 7. That it is tho intention of the board to meet next in Wellington on or about September 29, and to deal.first with the General Service appeals, and tlien with those of tho Telegraph and Posta.l Departments. Tho order m which' tho appeals from other districts will be dealt with to lie then decided.