THE MOKAU ENQUIRY.
(press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, September 26. The Mokau Committer resumed this morning to hear a statement by Mr Jones. Mr Jennings intimated that the statement must oe confined to tho matter before the committee. Jones said that he had prepared a short synopsis from 1876 to the present day, and -would like the committee to hear it. Mr Jennings reiterated that the statement would have to be confined to the papers forming the subject matter of the enquiry. Jones's story -was, he said, aa well known as Robinson Crusoe's. He suggested that he should again petition Parliament. The committee "would not allow the matter from 1876 to be traversed. Jones stated that he-wanted to produce- the Stout-Palmer report and comment on it. Eventually the committee decided to adjourn further hearing of the matter till Thursday, to give Jones an opportunity of recasting his statement to begin at the time when the negotiations were opened by Hermann Lewis.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14159, 27 September 1911, Page 7
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