THE POSTAL INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1922, Page 13

THE POSTAL INQUIRY.

SOUO%rOR'S STATEMENT. DBPAfcTMEVTAT, FAIR'NEPS. ,ff. Telegraph Vru*a Association.) WELLINGTON this day. £,0 women. an.l .... ..»."_ i-lmrjM In was &»* ,«-«« mn an to the second The **"* „■■ name »;l« Tin! iriw'll until hi' to'' l ' H, ™loav,,ural S how thai the IVparimeni had Rone «t of Its way to • .nvu-1 him. and doJrf he had Loon ;.roj U Uiced by the rt. statements taken in ,-onHdence had *„ used against thorn h> Konnody'* the Department calloii only witMsßfß who «"<re against Kennedy. i.. Dit€ the fact that they had found Xsses -ho would have diluted that tMtimon.T. The witness remarked that le did not say that the Department was unfair. The Commissioner (Mr. K. K. Hunt. SM.:I Well, isn't that what 1 am here tt Investigate? Witness: I did not say that. The witness said also that he did not Hike any charge that evidence had been mppressed. He contended that when the Department held an inquiry it should tling.oiit all the evidence available, all tvidenoe for and apainst the defendant. If this was n °t done the Department rtoiild say that it was going to prosecute. He believed that the secretary of the Department (Mr. K. B. Morris) fctd been actuated by the most kindly actives, but that the chief inspector (Mr. J. Laurenson) was responsible for I lot of discontent in the service. Tie Commissioner: Don't you think yea hive been a little indiscreet to have ■lie this report? The bulk of this has Jjlitn flat to the pround. Ue witness: For everything 1 have ftij I havei had statements from the ■in. ..; . Tin sitting flien adjourned.