PAGE MILLIONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16462, 14 June 1919, Page 4

PAGE MILLIONS.

THE CROWN HAS NO TITLE. “The Crown has been advised that it has no title to the property which is alleged to have been left by Henry Page,” state the Treasury in reply to a question by Mr. Ronald M‘Neill whether information had been given to them that certain freeholds and other property in Middlesex escheated to the Crown on the death of Henry Pago without heirs in 1829. The Page estate is an affair which crops up at intervals, and inquiries have been made into it by successive Attorney-Generals. The estate covers one-third of the county of Middlesex, embracing some of the western suburbs of London, and was said twelve years ago to bo worth £150,000,000. The last of the Pages died in 1829 and left no heir. The titles to many parts of the estate have in the intervening 90 years become exceedingly complicated, and various actions by claimants have been before the courts.