DARWIN TROUBLE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 252, 23 October 1919, Page 5

DARWIN TROUBLE.

DR. GILRUTH'S POSITION. 1 LEAVE ON FTJTX PAY. NOT INTERESTED IN VESTEY'S. {By Cable.—rress Association.—Copyright.) • (Received 1.20 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Tn the House of Representatives the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. P. M.I Glynn, replying to questions regarding I the Darwin episode, said that Dr. Gil- \ ruth asked for eleven months' holiday. He was granted six, and was still drawing salary and house allowance as i Administrator. He was now in England,'' where he was doing certain work for the Customs Department. In reply to Senator derrick's state-1 5 ment in the Senate yesterday that the | trouble had been caused by the generalj' belief that Dr. Gilruth," the former ' Administrator, was interested in Vestey ! Brothers, the British cool storage firm, . and that Mr. Carey and other officials ] appointed on Dr. Gilruth's advice were equally interested. Mr. Arnold, solicitor for Vestey Brothers, stated that : the suggestion that Dr. Gilruth or any other Government official in the Northern Territory is or was interested'; in the firm of Vestey Brothers, or the North Australian Meat Company was incorrect. He also denied the inferences that Vestey Brothers were connected with the American Me.it Trust. Vesteys was wholly British, and was not . connected with any trust or combine. —• (A. and N.Z. Cable.)