LIBEL CASE COSTS
Expenditure Not Queried (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 19. The Controller and AuditorGeneral presumably felt that the "unauthorised expenditure” item in the Estimates relating to an ex gratia payment of £llB6 did not call for special comment, the DeputyPrime Minister (Mr Marshall) •aid in Parliament today. Mr J. Mathison (Opposition, Avon) asked if this “unusual” expenditure for legal costs and damages in settlement of a libel action in which the Minister of Labour (Mr Shand) was involved had been cleared by the AuditorGeneral. Mr Marshall also said that the Opposition had the choice under standing order* to initiate discussion on the subject.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30188, 20 July 1963, Page 13
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