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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2999, 10 September 1888, Page 2

The following reference to certain Town Lands Trustees in the .columns of our local contemporary-is outspoken They (the -Trustees).;, were unable to swallow what is known as. Ward's section, or even hold it in Trust fortho missing owner should he overturn up. So when Mr'Renall left it to them and went: of! to England they took advantage ,to turn up thoir noses at the gift, and allowed it to be jumped.' ■ ..

_ Here we have Ward's section' as a gift, and Mr Kenall as a giver, but how could Mr Renall give away what did not belong to him, or the Town Lands Trust accept nnother.uan's estate. In point of law the section belonged to Ward of his legal representatives,' If Mr Benall" gave it, and the Town Lands Trust accepted it,thoy would simply have been giving and receiving' "stolen land," That "-the ' Town Lands Trustees should lmvp -refused to become "receivers of stolen property," is, we submit, a point in their favor rather than a reproach. Subsequently, by a legal process, the Town Lands Trustees became possessed of the section, It cost them £250, but it was better to have paid this sum to secure it honorably, than obtain it for nothing by dishonorable means, The Town Lands Trust has, wo are thankful to Bay, a clean record,