PAPAKURA.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 165, 14 April 1916, Page 4

PAPAKURA.

PAPAKURA WIDOW'S CLAIM. An application under the Family Protection Act was made to Mr Justice Chapman in the Auckland Supreme Court on Wednesday, on behalf of Mrs Catherine Parrish, of Papakura, for an adequate allowance from her late husband's estate. The applicant is an old lady 79 years, widow of the late John Parrish, who lived at Martinborough, in the Wairarapa, Wellington Province, and who died in 1913, leaving property of the value of about £IOOO, which he bequeathed in trust for his widow for her life, eventually to pass to their children. It was represented on her behalf that her total income from the estate was only about £52 a year; her only personal property was a Savings Bank deposit of £llO, and she could not live in comfort on less than 35s per week ; and that she was obliged to supplement her income by trenching upon her capital. During her husband's lifetime she assisted him in building up the estate of which he died possessed, by sewing and washing for outside her family, poultry-farming, and other farm work, and applying the proceeds to the improvement of the farm. Mr Haddow appeared for the applicant and for her two daughters (who submitted to the order of the Court), and Mr Prendergast for her three sons. After having heard counsel, His Honour reserved judgment.

Ono of the latest proposals of the Town Board is to erect an acetylene fctreot lamp outside the Creamery and this will probably be the forerunner of the existing oil lamps being replaced by acetylene illuminauts.