DEATH FROM ENEMY ACTION
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ESTATES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 31. “ The same torpedo could kill a merchant seaman and a soldier,” said a member of the Dominion Executive Committee of the New Zealand Returned_ Services’ Association when drawing attention at a recent meeting to the fact that the seaman’s estate would bo liable for death duties, while that of the soldier would be exempt. The committee was considering the reply of the Minister of Stamp Duties to the association’s representations that in cases where a merchant seaman died as the result of enemy action the estate should be exempt from death duties. The association submitted that, in view of the fact that the estates of deceased members of the naval, military, and air forces were exempt from estate duty, it was only fair and reasonable that the estates of merchant seamen whoso deaths occurred through enemy action should also be exempt. The Minister’s reply stated that the representations would receive the consideration of the Government whenever the question of extending the present exemptions was under review.
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Evening Star, Issue 24288, 1 September 1942, Page 5
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177DEATH FROM ENEMY ACTION Evening Star, Issue 24288, 1 September 1942, Page 5
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