RECEIVES £60,000
DRAPER'S SHARE OF ESTATE Press Association C HRISTCHURCH, Thursday. It is reported that Mr. .John Watson, who has a drapery business at Springston, is to receive £60,000, portion of a large estate left by a distant relative who died some years ago in America. The story is that the relative, Mr. John Andrews, left Ireland as a young man, amassed a fortune in America of between £l6 000,000 and £19,000,000, and died without children or a wife. Nothing was known of his relatives and the money was held by the American Government, which advertised for the heirs. After litigation one of Mr. John Andrews’s nephew’s established tho family’s claim. Mr. Watson's ■share, it was stated, comes to him through an aunt who left no will.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 16
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127RECEIVES £60,000 Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 16
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