["News and Notes", The West Australian, Saturday 29 October 1921, page 8]
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A Pearler's Estate.--In the Supreme Court yesterday, before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert McLillan), Mr. Ross McDonald appeared for the executors in the estate of Abraham Davis, late of Broome, pearler, deceased, namely, Rebecca Rubin. Bernard Rubin, John Lyall Stewart, William Stone, and Harold de Vahl, who sought leave to sell De Vahl Station, in which the deceased held a three-fifths interest, for £3,000 to the Repatriation- Department on the ground that the station had been carried on at a loss since 1917. In the event of that sum not being realised, it was asked that the property might be sold at such price. Various affidavits in support of the petition were tendered, and the Chief Justice granted the application to sell at £3,000, with leave to apply further in the event of that sum not being realised.
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