Cable Jottings
HEAVY DK AT 1 r Dr T 1 l ; :s. —The jstate of ihe late Mr. John Brown, of Haitian d. New South Wales, is estimvariously at £1,500,000 to *2,500,000. If the estate is worth only £ 1.000,000, the New South Wales duty J-iU be 20 per cent., or £ 200,000. Probate duty and Federal duty will be an additional 15 per cent. MORE ENGLISH MARRIAGES. — The number of marriages in England and Wales last year was 310,590. which to the highest for eight years. But the births were 644,215. the lowest on record. The number of deaths wa« 532,525. tbe highest since 1019. owing to the abnormally cold weather.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19300310.2.54
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 917, 10 March 1930, Page 9
Word Count
110Cable Jottings Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 917, 10 March 1930, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in