L'AFFAIRE KNYVETT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 161, 9 July 1910, Page 4

L'AFFAIRE KNYVETT.

A BE-HEABIiTG POSSIBLE. » 1 AMENDatBNT OF DEFENCE AC3 f (By Telegraph.—Paaliameniaxy Reports ■■M WELLINGTON, this day. ", As promised gome time ago, the Gi ~:M ernment has included in the Defogfflß Amendment Bill a clause setting board of appeal on dismissals, and tl'f . .-will enable a rehearing of the Kjiyve? case. The ibill provides that the shall consist of the Ciiiei Justice (o * judge of the Supreme Court), and t ? officers of a rank not lower than u't,; , of colonel. In order to deal with jj§ affaire Knyvett, the machinery of i ? clause extends to dismissals •dm S the 12 months preceding the passage > f • the Act, as well as to subsequent < s " missals. I . The Hon. Geo. Fowlds, speaking yr* "Star" representative, this evening; $ ld the clause in question was intended.;* 0 make possible a rehearing of the casr°f ex-Captain Knyvetfc on the lines indited ,by him during his speech at ftey Lynn a few weeks ago. In connerfi«u with the inquiry into tJie charges levied by 3lr Knyjvctt against Colpel" Robin, the Minister explains thafc n ° ■legislation will be required to make possible, as the new commandaut,.on arrival in New Zealand, will have -pffer to investigate those indictments. 11