THE HER RICK ESTATE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 117, 16 November 1908, Page 5

THE HER RICK ESTA TE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, — I was at Mr Hunter's meeting on Saturday night, when he brought up the purchase of the Forest Gate Estate, and said how his heart bled for the widow and the fatherless, who were having this esj tate ruthlessly taken from them, but Mr Hunter did not tell the audience that the widow and fatherless were anxkms to sell this estate, and had it in the market at £4 per acre, and that any one could get it at that price, and, further, Mr Hunter did not tell his audience that when the Government wanted to purchase that estate, that Mrs Herrick's price at once went up to £6 an acre, and that , Mr Hunter went into the witness box, knowing that Mrs Herrick's price had been £4 an acre, and gave evidence that it was worth £5 10s per acre. — 30s more than she had been prepared to sell for only a short tune previously. Mrs Herrick, therefore, got £12,6*00 more than her own" valu r ation, and through Mr Hunter's evidence, and received altogether close on £50,000. I ask Mr Hunter, who was robbed, Mrs Herrick or the settlers? Mrs Herrick took the pur-

chaso money, and with it bougli^ i» much larger run and bettor land. This cry of Mr Hunter's about tho widow and fatherless would have been hotter left alone. Mr Huntw comes out of this matter very badly, fur he must know that this is the very r^iatcthat his own supporters in this d> - trict have been crying out agsivist the Government for buying too <;<;>■■. I am, etc., ONE THAT KNOW'rL