DENIAL OF THREATS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 15

DENIAL OF THREATS

HUNTER ESTATE DISPUTE EVIDENCE OF DEFENDANT (Per r ■css Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Further proceedings took place in the Supreme Court this morning in the case in which gross mismanagement of the estate of the late Sir George Hunter is alleged bv 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 arc denied by them. Kenneth Edward Cornish, manager of a firm which sold skins from the station, said that Sir George Hunter could not have lost much in the way of skins and dead wool. Roy Octavious Bousfield, manager of a stock and station firm, said that there had been improvements in the stock since the trustees took over. The standard of the cattle to-day compared favourably with the best station cattle on the East Coast. Cyril Paul Hunter, one of the defendants, said lie had had many years of experience as a sbeepfarmer. He denied making any threats to Lady Hunter.