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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1922, Page 5

A royal commission and a roving commission are uot synonymous, but sometimes the one leads to the other. Witnesses are notoriously given to wandering off the trade when they have not a sharp-witted lawyer on the other side of the ease (as in the courts of justice) to keep them to the straight and narrow path. So that the temptation to stray a bit is all ihe greater when you H«v» n m"r» rwwl.nati,--' - ■-.', flisten to your story. This morning nt the Tnuno Railway Commission's sitting the evidence had a fairly wide scope on -~,.., ,-■•,).. of M.o ll".—*V.« = s ".-. „~.

nosed line—and on otic occasion fie evidence got as far away as the Spanish Armnila. These thiiizs are. however, inevitable, and. as a matter of fact, some of the most interesting evidence given at such a commission is often (from the point of view of general interest) something that has very little to do with the order of reference. Reports of commissions, however, and especially ante-elec-tion commissions, are apt to be very carefully taken down, very elaborately printed with appropriate maps and plans, and then decently interred in some pigeon hole in the big wooden building in Wellington, where they gather much dust and very little publicity.