THE CHARITABLE AID CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1348, 2 June 1885, Page 2

THE CHARITABLE AID CASE.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —In your issue of bhe 30th I noticed a letter signed by J, J. Heap, who, 1 understand, acted as bailiff in the late Widow-Crushing case. Mr Heap says : “I had no instructions to take everything, as my instructions were not to do so.” I should like to know what took Mr Heap there at all, if bis instructions were not to do so, If so, be must have exceeded his instructions, as I noticed at the sale that everything (from the family bed -to the infants’ chair) was sold, while a stray drone from the Bee Hive was actively engaged in running up the goods against those who were purchasing for the widow. Mr Heap says : “ Mr Wyatt assisted me in removing the furniture and also the carrier,” Mr Heap must have swallowed the Lindley Murray grammar in the Dunedin Classical Seminary he attended. It is a pity so much Education has been wasted on a bailiff. 1

think the carrier was able to remove himself without the assistance of Mr Wyatt. It is evident that Mr Heap’s ideas got fearfully muddled when he got Mr Wyatt to remove the carrier. The importance of the position be then filled must have knocked him all of a heap, One or two questions 1 would ask now: 11 the widow was a party to the sale, who got the money the sale realised ? Also, is it true that Mr March, the charitable aid officer, has asked to be supplied with a full statement of all the transactions in this affair ?—Yours, etc., George Edgar. Temuka, June Ist, 1685.