MR. LYSNAR'S DEFENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 5

MR. LYSNAR'S DEFENCE.

MEAT "WORKS INQUIRY. TALK ABOUT "WRECKING." | (By Telegraph.—Press Associntion.) , WKLLINGTON, this day. Before the Meat Commission to-day* Mr. \V. D. Lysnar said the Meato Board"s attitude was to wreck the company and wreck him. They had not succeeded, and they would not succeed. "They will wreck somebody else as well as mc if they ever do succeed," he remarked. Regarding Mr. Myers' statement on behalf of the National Bank, Mr. Lysnar said that the former's abuse did not call for any comment except to point out that the old saying: "If you have no case abuse the other side,' , applied to Mr. Myers. Mr. Lysnar denied suggestions of Messrs. Myers and Skerrett that he had taken advantage of the political situation. There was not the slightest justification for those allegations, as would be disclosed by the facts. His sole object had been to safeguard the

interests of shareholders of the Poverty Bay Farmers' Meat Company and tho producers of the Dominion as a whole. Mr. Lysnar then referred to interviews he had had with the Hon. W. Xosworthy and Sir Francis Bill, and to discussions which had taken place in the House of Representatives. It had bepn the Minister of Agriculture himself who had brought up contentious matter in connection with transactions when the Meat Export Bill was before the House. Mr. Lysnar was proceeding to deal with certain dealings with the bank, when the chairman interposed, stating that the commission had already spent many hours in carefully going through the "bank file.