POLITICAL REWARDS.
Knight from Shady Corner. LONDON, July 12. The Prime Minister, Sir Henry Camp-bell-Bannerman, was heckled in the House of Commons with regard to the knighthood conferred on Sir James . Smith, director of the Ayrshire Foundry, i which fraudulently supplied a defective rudder to the battleship King Edward VII. Sir James Smith was also a prominent electioneering supporter of Sir H. Camp-bell-Bannerman. [The Committee of Public Accounts, in a recent report, strongiy animadverted on the conduct of the Ayrshire Foundry Company in concealing by electric welding a large fault in the rudder casting afterwards built into the battleship King Edward VII. One of the company's dismissed employees divulged the deception. ,_ The company is now bankrupt, owing to the loss of Admiralty orders.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 166, 13 July 1907, Page 5
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