NO WILL FOUND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1941, Page 6

NO WILL FOUND

ESTATE OF LATE MRS MERRY SWORN AT UNDER £IOO,COO. PROVISIONAL ORDER MADE BY COURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The estate of the late Mrs Alice Merry has been sworn at under £lOO,000 and an order has been made in the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Ostler granting administration of the estate, ad bona colligenda, to a trust officer of the New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd. There is still no trace of a will, and by advertisement today the company is asking any person who witnessed a will signed by the deceased, or is able to give any information regarding such a will, to communicate with the company. A thorough search of the house (in which Mrs Merry was found dead) has been made by the police, the lawyer and relatives of Mrs Merry, but they found no signs of a will. It is understood that they found a parcel of debentures of the value of £5OO. The attitude of the relatives about a will seems to be summed up in the statement of a niece that to talk of the certainty of a will being in existence was just guessing. A story from Auckland about Mrs Merry intending to go up there for the Labour Day weekend is not taken seriously. Mrs Merry hardly visited her own relatives and it was the hardest thing in the world, her niece said, to get hei’ out. She just used to say she liked to be by herself. The legal procedure meanvzhile adopted means that an appointed administrator takes charge of all the assets for the purpose of preserving them until a will is found, or it is established that no will was made, when letters of administration can be granted. It is now known that Mrs Merry’s only surviving relatives are four nieces and six nephews, living in the Wellington and Taranaki districts. The residence is under police supervision.