NATIVE AFFAIRS COMMISSION
CONTROL AND STAFF OF DEPARTMENT
QUESTIONS ABOUT MINISTER
FORMER SUPERVISOR GIVES EVIDENCE
Evidence on the staffing.arrangements in the Native Affairs Department was given by Mr. P.* Verschaffelt, Public Service Commissioner, today before the Native Affairs Commission. He was lengthily examined by the Commission on an interview he had With Sir Apirana Ngata, in which the Minister had stated that he might-have to consider his positionl witn the Government, and, when asked for an explanation of the Minister's attitude, Mr. Verschaffelt said that the question at issue'involved the control of the head office. Mr. P. Barry, a former farm supervisor, also gave evidence, in which he explained that he had been dismissed from* the Department on the instructions of the Minister after "he had refused to authorise the payment of an account submitted by Princess Te'Puea.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 10
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