THE HUNTER CASE
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Evidence of Damaged Wool
IJBy- Telegraph—
WELLINGTON, Last Night. In the Hunter case to-day Edward Leslie Hazelton, wool expert; of Wellington, said that twice in May he iuspected a quantity of wool and skijis from the station in a Wellington store. Some of the ekins were badly damaged, earrying earth or sand. Some of the wool had apparently been burned or singed. Other wool appeared to have been buried. Burial while damp could have caused scorching. Had the loose wool been undamaged it would have been worth to-day tenpence to a shilling a pound, and some of the wool still had a saleable value. He could see not the slightest excuse for burying or burning skins and wool. Some of the skins he saw were properly treated, but some were misshapen through being thrown over posts, and some were badly weather-beaten, the pelts being valueless. He saw no sigus Of weevils in Sny of the skins he examined. Cross-examination waa postponed until more evidence is forthcoming as to the exaet source of some of the wool witness spoke of.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 136, 25 June 1937, Page 14
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