HUNTER WILL CASE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 December 1930, Page 9

HUNTER WILL CASE

EVIDENCE CONTINUED. LETTER. FILE PRODUCED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Deo. 18. The Hunter will case was continued in the Supreme Court to-day. Daniel George Arthur Cooper, formerly registrar of the. Supreme Court, and afterward SAL, said that lie sa*w the late Sir George Hunter last Angst, when lie, spoke quite dearty and his face seemed the same as witness had always known ft. Recalled, Alexander Dunn, -barrister and solicitor, produced a file of letters and -Sir George Hunter’s letter book forwarded to Mr. Percy Hunter in connection with Sir George’s affairs between October 8, 1929 and June 17, 1930. The letters were based on conversations lie had had with -Sir George. Witness said that -Sir George’s power if doing business was the .same after the stroke as before. His whole manner was the same and lie required no prompting. Mr. Justice Reed said lie regarded the letters as very important.

Replying to His Honour, witness said Sir George appreciated the fact that the Government’s supertax would affect- him considerably. In fact. Sir George’s case had been quoted in Parliament.