LADY HUNTER’S EVIDENCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19364, 30 June 1937, Page 5

LADY HUNTER’S EVIDENCE

DISPUTE OVER ESTATE M ISM AN AG EM ENT ( 1 H A ROE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Further proceedings took place in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon in the case in which gross mismanagement of the estate of the late Sir George Hunter is alleged by his widow, Edith May Hunter, against the trustees, Cyril Paul Hunter and Thomas Percy Hunter, nephews of the deceased. The plaintiff is seeking their removal from the trusteeship because of her allegations, which are denied by them. Lady Hunter, giving evidence, said that under Sir George’s will she took the net income of the estate until her remarriage, it being then reduced to £ISOO a year for the first two and a’half years. After her husband's death she received nothing. Finally she applied to the court under the Family Protetcion Act and an order was made for £7 13s a week, which was debited against her future income. It was not until five years after Sir George’s death that she received the estate accounts. She then decided that she had sufficient evidence for a complete investigation. She took advice last year and as a result obtained reports from farm experts.