SUED FOR 2/-

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1936, Page 11

SUED FOR 2/-

CROFTERS WALK 12 MILES. LONDON, March 18. Two elderly crofters walked 12 miles to the Stornoway Sheriff Court yesterday to defend actions against them for 2/-. The Keose Grazings Committee sought to recover from each of them 1/- for the grazing of a ram on an island near the village. The crofters maintain that the island does not belong to Keose Glebe, but to their own village of Keose. They conducted their own case, and when advised to seek legal advice one of them replied: “We are not that rich that we can have a lawyer, but we will try to explain the matter as well as we can.” They were told they could have

legal aid, but, saying it would take too long to explain to a lawyer, they launched an eloquent plea that the island had been-a’P'Osses.sion of their forefathers for many yeai’s. “My ancestors had it for\four generations,”/ one remarked. “Both my grandfathers had it, my father had it, and I had it myself since I came to the place, and we were never asked to pay anything for it until now..” The case will go to proof next week, when the defenders say they will have numerous questions to ask the Grazings Committee. /'