A PAUPER’S WEALTH
In the Perth. Supreme Court the action ow a boarding-house keeper, at Fremantle, against the curator ct intestate estates for £194 for board and longing, supplied to David Alaliows ievcaied that, although Mallows picked up odds and "ends in gutters and took i.oles Irom working men ’he was sufficiently affluent to have lived comfortably to tin; end of his days. It was stated that he had about £4OO in the Savings Bank which had not been operated tfii for years, and gilt-edged securities in the shape cf war bonds. Behind a skirting-board a constable found a deposit receipt for nine shares in the Commercial Bank end a deposit receipt from the Western Australian Bank for £7OO. He lad lived in a room which contained a bed and a chair, while the few -cldthes that he possessed were so filthy that they had to be burned. The curator cf Intestate estates paid £5B into Court in satisfaction of the claim for accommodation for 161 weeks.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 12
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167A PAUPER’S WEALTH Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 12
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