original list taken from Marlborough Express, 5 October 1912

STAMP DUTY, DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES
... The following estates, of £1000 and over (2012 equivalent of $155,600), of deceased persons, were certified to by the Commissioner of Stamps last month:-
NOTES
* listed here in alphabetical order
* some birth dates may be approx, based on age at death
* some deaths may have been in 1911 & stamp duty 1912


AUCKLAND
• Ernest Edwin BASTEN (1845-1912) ... £1,154
- died 27 March 1912 at the residence of Mr Bernes, Acondale road, Mount Albert
• Robert Henry CALEY (1858-1912) ... £4,554
- Robert died in Kapikapi, Cambridge, Waikato & buried Pukerimu
• John CAMPBELL (?) ... £3,250
• Thomas Henry CHAPMAN (1864-1911) ... £57,935 ($9,015,500 in 2012)
• George CHAPPELL (1840-1912) ... £1,137
• John Joseph GREEN (1830-1912) ... £2,383
• Mary MULVANEY (1860-1912) ... £1,217
• James ROULSTON (?) ... £11,134
• Thomas Joseph SARGEANT (?) ... £1,249
• Margaret Annie TODD (1841-1912) ... £3,655
• John WILLIAMS (?) ... £5,162


CHRISTCHURCH
• Thomas ATKINSON (?) ... £1,855
• Thomas Joseph BURNS (1857-1911) ... £14,271
• William Thomas CORBETT (1868-1912) ... £975
• John FORREST (1840-1912) ... £2,128
• Louisa B FORRESTER (1854-1911) ... £4,727
• Alexander GREIG (1833-1912) ... £6,593
• Christopher GRIEVE (1846-1912) ... £3,137
• William HARRISON (?) ... £7,522
• James HAY (?) ... £37,550
• Alexander William HOLMES (1884-1912) ... £5,279
• George INNES (1831-1912) ... £8,959
• John McGILLIVRAY (1827-1912) ... £5,157
• David McGIVERN (1844-1912) ... £2,889
• Eliza B MILLER (?) ... £2,842
• John Peter NEILSON (1851-1912) ... £3,110
• Peter SHEARER (?) ... £1,042
• Jasper STEWART (1862-1912) ... £10,862
• Mary SUTTON (1842-1912) ... £1,125
• Janet THOMSON (1853-1911) ... £2,637
• David TODD (1827-1912) ... £1,013
• Isaac WILSON (1841-1912) ... £29,048


DUNEDIN
• Edmund ACKROYD (?) ... £3,123
• George CALDER (1839-1912) ... £2,179
• William J CALTAN (?) ... £5,066
• John COOKE (1829-1912) ... £6,883
• James CRAIG (?) ... £51,123
• Mary DAVY (?) ... £1,794
• Ephraim ELLIS (1834-1912) ... £6,883
• Robert Henry ENGLES (?) ... £2,780
• Archibald FLETCHER (1834-1912) ... £5,934
• Donald Gordon GUNN (1860-1912) ... £3,659
• Eliza Gray Park HASKELL (1841-1912) ... £1,602
• Richard HASTIE (1844-1912) ... £4,095
• Margaret HEFFERMAN (1849-June 1912 nee O'MALLEY) ... £1,201
• Thomas HEFFERMAN (1839-April 1912) ... £8,250
• Anna Sophia PILLANS (1839-1912) ... £7,242
• Walter PRICTOR (1854-July 1912) ... £3,063
- representative of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, formerly with Sargood Son & Ewen
- his wife Apolina Armstrong Johnston died May 1912 aged 54
• Charles Stuart REID (1867-1912) ... £4,620
• James ROBERTSON (?) ... £8,717
• Isabella Christina Agnes SHAND (1856-1911) ... £20,847
• Frank WILLIAMS (1856-1912) ... £1,113
• Helen W WILSON (1830-1912) ... £1,108


HAWKE'S BAY
• Henry COOK (?) ... £3,378
• Sarah Ann Stanley STRUTHERS (1854-1911) ... £1,786
• Charles Hill THOMAS (1864-1912) ... £1,187


MARLBOROUGH
• George COWARD (1823-1912) ... £5,312
• Elizabeth Ann WHITE (?) ... £6,585


NELSON
• Robert Smith WALLACE (1839-1912) ... £1,385


NEW PLYMOUTH
• James BAYLY (?) ... £15,049
• Edmund James MORGAN (1841-1912) ... £5,591
• Hugh John RICHMOND (1861-1911) ... £1,966
• George TURNER (?) ... £1,560


POVERTY BAY
• William Frederic HALE (?) ... £1,809


SOUTHLAND
• Thomas CHAMBERS (?) ... £1,160
• John GRAHAM (?) ... £2,527
• Peter LARSEN (1834-1912) ... £1,308


WELLINGTON
• Richmond ALLEN (?) ... £1,118
• Arthur ANDERSON (1878-1911) ... £1,396
• John BRADDING (1846-1911) ... £1,092
• Owen Arthur CADWALLADER (1875-1912) ... £5,667
• Matthew CONNOR (1836-1912) ... £2,835
• Patrick Thomas FAIR (1840-1911) ... £47,508
- Farmer, late of Palmerston North
• Francis Humphries FRASER (1833-1911) ... £7,363
• Robert Read GROOM (1847-1911) ... £3,168
• John HAMILTON (?) ... £20,484
• Caroline MANSFIELD (1848-1912) ... £3,647
• John MATHERS (1854-1911) ... £1,492
• John McCORMACK (?) ... £5,802
• E Julia OGG (?) ... £9,022
• James PAULIN (1827-1912) ... £3,982
• Anna Wilson RICHMOND (1855-1912) ... £6,223
• Janet SAUNDERS (1837-1912) ... £1,395
• Margaret STINNER (?) ... £2,093


PHOTO
KAIAPOI WOOLLEN COMPANY c1903
- see Walter Prictor, Dunedin