SELLER OF HUNTLY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3792, 9 August 1932, Page 5

SELLER OF HUNTLY

THREW AWAY FORTENE PIONEER’S BAD FECK (Per Press Association) EtUiam, August 8. Tll<, death of Mrs Margaret Clialmor?, of Eltham, recalls the story of the sale of a. town, when the seller aid not know of the, fortune lying beneath the surface, ft, was the late Alexander Henry, father or Airs Chalmers, who unwittingly threw a wav tli Lfortune.

Mr Henry. at one time steward of Ihe estates of the Duke and tkuehess

c.f Gordon, name to New Zealand about 60 years ago from Scotland, and settled wth life family in a place that is now called bluntly. He was the founder oif that town, and named it after hi. birthplace, Huntly in A rberdcensliire. Mr Henry lvecamo owner of most of the land in the neighbourhood, and it, was recalled with no little regret by tliei late Airs Chajmer?. how one brigh. Saturday morning tier father sdd the township and moved to Hawke’s Bay. At that t'me no one dreamed of the rich scams of coal that ran under the scrub and hush and pasturage that wa? sold.