A WOMAN'S ESTATE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18662, 23 March 1935, Page 13

A WOMAN'S ESTATE

PUBLIC TRUSTEE'S ACTION CRITICISM IN HOUSE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The House .(it Representatives was engaged for a considerable time to-day in discussing a petition of Mrs. Coleridge Kan-, of Christchurch, who sought id regain from the Public. Trustee control of her own estate. The Public Petitions Committee re- !■ tended that the petition be referred in the Government for consideration. The facts of the case were outlined by Mr. K. •). Howard (Labor, Christ.'bureb S.), who explained ■ that Mrs. Parr had at one time been an inmate, of a mental institution, and despite the testimonies of several eminent specialists ill New Zealand and England, she. had not been able to secure control of her estate, which in 1898 was valued a( £16,000. He submitted that Mrs. Pari' had not been treated fairJy in the matter. Sir Alexander Voting said he had no objection to Hie recommendation of the !committee, and would take the matter up to sec what could be done. No obstacle would be placed in the petitioner's way by the Government. Several members spoke in support ol Ihe pel il ion, and the Government was urged In ael without delay. The report was tabled. f