Farrell Left £2,087

EDWARD FARRELL, the villain of the notorious New Guinea Timber Lease Case —who died last November, aged 61, before further legal action was taken against him—left an estate valued at £2,087, to his widow.

Farrell, “Jock” Garden, and probably one or two others operating from Sydney,

obtained altogether some £50,000 from a Queensland timber firm, on an assur ance that Garden was getting a valuable New Guinea timber lease from his De partmental chief and former political as sociate, Australian Minister, E. J. Ward A Judge, authorised to act as a Royal Commissioner, exonerated Mr. Ward from various charges. “ Jock” Garden is still m gaol. No one has ever been able to find out what became of the £50,000