Inquiry ordered into sacking
PA Auckland An inquiry has been ordered by the GovernorGeneral, Sir David Beattie, into the dismissal in 1980 of a Waikato University senior lecturer who alleged a link between the university’s biology isotope laboratory, and the deaths from cancer of several students.
It'was announced yesterday that, as Visitor of New Zealand universities, the Governor-General had chosen a two-man committee of inquiry to look into the sacking of Mr R. J. Rigg, a senior lecturer in German at Waikato University. The men who have been
appointed to the inquiry are a former president of the Court of Appeal, Sir Clifford Richmond, and Professor K. J. Keith, a professor of constitutional law at Victoria University. After the inquiry, which is expected to start in midOctober, a report will be sent to the Governor-General who
will, according to a' spokesman, “decide whether he should grant any relief to Mr Rigg” The hearing will be closed to the news media. A venue has yet to be set. Mr Rigg yesterday refused to comment on the granting of the inquiry.
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