HUNTER WILL CASE
FURTHER EVIDENCE.
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.j
WELLINGTON. November 20
Dunn was (further cross examined by Mr Watson in the Hooter will case to-day. He said the reading of the will to Sir George Hunter and his subsequent explanation of the various clauses might have taken twenty minutes or half an hour.
Was he very tired before you started to read this document F No. I didn’t understand lie was particularly tired. He was propped up in bed on pillows with cold water packs on the body to reduce pressure and temperature ? I didn’t notice that. It may have been so.
Counsel then asked.—Do you think this man, aged 72 years, in fourteen days after an apoplectic stroke, was capable of following your reading ol tile will?
Reply.—Of course I don’t know how he was applying himself while I was reading it, but if lie had taken the trouble, he was perfectly capable of understanding the whole thing. Do you think lie d d fully understand what you were reading? I do.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1930, Page 5
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