ANOTHER JOLT,

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17985, 2 April 1930, Page 7

ANOTHER JOLT,

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Recently the letters headed “A Railway Incident” and “Jolting the Farmer” appeared in your public opinion column. Firstly, I must thank your correspondent who, writing under the nom-de-plume of “Farmer,” seems to have in his mind the case which I am stating below. Seeing that Mr W. P. Kenah is out to champion the cause of those suffering from injustice, we wonder what he thinks of a case that happened near Morrinsville during the past two months. Briefly, the situation is this: A purchased from B a farm during the boom period at about £6O per acre, paying for same partly in cash and mortgage. Later A re-sold to G at £45 per acre, payment being in cash, mortgage, and a collateral bill-of-sale over stock. Later A realised that G could not afford to farm at that price, and surrendered his mortgage to/ B, with his security, conditionally on his liability ceasing and no inteerst should be charged to G. G made an heroic struggle for eight years and was practically in clear water, when on technical terms B re-entered on the farm claimed the stock (for which he had paid nothing), and turned C out. We think this is a case to interest Mr W. P. Kenah. We have heard of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel, also of a beam remaining in one’s eye while endeavouring to extract a mote Jrom one’s neighbour.—l am, etc., VICTIM.