LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The estates of 286 deceased persons wore assessed for death duties during last month, the largest being that ut Joseph Thomas Knight, of Canter-, bury, £66,804. New Plymouth estates were: Alice Clark £4235, David Sole £4052, -James Rayward £2058, .James Way £1606. Edwin George £I2BO, George Jordan £1154,. Seville B. K. Layward £1122, John J. Kavanagh £62:?. —Press Association. The Supreme Court at New Plymouth opened this morning before His Honor Mr Justice Denniston, who congratulated the district on the remarkable freedom from serious crime, only one criminal case being set down for trial. ,and one prisoner brought up for sentence. George Evans, who had pleaded guiltv in the lower'Court to a charge of forgery and uttering a cheque and one of theft, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.—P.A.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 6
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132LOCAL AND GENERAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 6
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