CLAIM TO MILLION
DUNEDIN MEN CONCERNEDA
DUNEDIN, Jan. 7, Two Dunedin men, Adam Fairholm Scott, who works in a bond store, and Neil Fairholm Scott, a motorman, are interested in the claim of their maternal grandmother, Mrs Annie Fairholm, of Tannockside, Scotland, to a fortune which is said to include £1,000,000, the Marquisato and Lauriston Castle overlooking the Firth of Forth, a brewery distillery in Edinburgh, a coalmine, and property in Lancashire, iFifeshire and Northern Ireland. Recent mails have brought them news of the claiming of this wealth by their grandmother. It is stated she has conclusive proofs of direct descent from the family originallv holding the title money, namelv, the Laws, of Crammond Bridge, Lauriston, Edinburgh, but till now had not known that the fortune was lying unclaimed. In an interview Adam Scott states that he expected to be soon recalled to Scotland.' lie produced a letter from his mother, with an interview with a Glasgow newspaper, giving particulars of the fortune, which apparently includes £136,000 amassed by an earlier descendant in Australia. Adam Scott arrived in Dunedin in 1922 and his brother a year ago P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10230, 8 January 1927, Page 7
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188CLAIM TO MILLION Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10230, 8 January 1927, Page 7
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