GIFT TO NATION
HON. ELSIE AfACKAY'S ESTATE
LONDON. Nov. 17
Tho Hon. Elsie Mackay left £682.51 7, of which £193,292 will be paid in death duties. [Lord and Lady Inclicape, the parents of the Hon. Elsie ALklvA> , who was lost in attempting to fly the Atlantic, made a gift 1“ the nation ot £500,000. the estimated residue of her estate, which passed to them. Thenwish was that it should ultimately be applied to a reduction of the National Debt after accumulating for roughly 50 years, unless at some other date the'proceeds, with other sums which nneht he available, were sufficient to redeem the whole liability of the State Lord Tnehcnpe also made provision for Airs HinehelfTe. wife of the pilot of Aliss A rack ay's plane, who was also lost.]
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1928, Page 5
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