PRIVY COUNCIL
A NEW ZEALAND APPEAL
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]
(United Service.) (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 22.
The Judieail Committee of the Privy Council disallowed with costs, an appeal by Mrs Olive Finch, of Wellington, as executrix of her husband, Charles Edmund Finch, versus the Commissioner of Stamp Duties respecting the Commissioner's claim on £1982 for death duties. The Committee uphold the original judgment of the Chief Justice of New Zealand Supreme Court that £1982 paid for alterations to Finch’s house, was not a gift to the wife hut was expended to improve- the home without intention of evading death duties.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1929, Page 5
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