THE PAGE MILLIONS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1867, 29 September 1913, Page 7

THE PAGE MILLIONS.

AN AUSTRALIAN CLAIMANT. By Telorraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, September 27. Mr, George Horton Morris, a claimant to the Page estate, on whose behalf a company was recently floated, departs for England on Octobor 2. A commission has been appointed by the Imperial Parliament to inyestigate the ownership of the estates. The story ol the enormously valuable Page estates is ono of tho romances of property. Originally a confiscated monr astic property, it was acquired by the Pago family from King Henry VIII, and gradually through centuries it was enlarged by them to its present vast dimensions. Five families of tho Pages had owned land in various parts of the estate, but eventually all fell into the hands of Henry Page, who died in 1829, leaving no heirs, and the estate passed into the hands of trustees. Since then portions of tho estate had been constantly soldi, and tho question of titles has becomo exceedingly, complicated. In March, 1907, tho estate wa3 declared' escheated to the Crown; but sinco then it, has been the subject of frequent' litigation. The Page estato has an area of some 60 square miles, including a third of the county of Middlesex, whole suburbs of London, and sections of rural Hertfordshire. It stretches north from Marble Arch through Edgware to Elstree Station, and from that point its boundary runs westward to Rickmansworth, thence south to a point a few miles south of Uxbridge, and liack to Hyde Park by Sonthall. Acton, and Notting Hill. Harrow is approximately its centre. Some of the finest residential

districts in the West End and a suburban aTO-a which is certain to bo enormously developed in the next few years, as well as rich aprricultural districts towards the Bucks and Herts borders, are part of the enormously valuable Page estate.