25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

Parliament Buildings Contract From “Tlie Dominion,” December 13, 1913. A contract for tlie erection of Parliament Buildings has been signed. The successful tenderers are Messrs. Hansford, Mills and Hardy, of Christchurch, and the price at which they have undertaken the work is £151,639. * In connexion with the police inquiries into the infant murders in Melbourne, where sensational disclosures followed on the suicide of a woman named Mrs. Newman. the methods of tlie American “Third Degree” are being applied in the examination of the deceased woman’s husband and children. The bodies of two infants were unearthed in a fowlhouse at the woman’s residence and at least four others are missing. Tlie woman left a note stating that her husband and children knew nothing of the business. The children were subjected to 12 hours’ examination and the husband to 14. Public indignation has been aroused, and Mr. Prendergast, tlie Chief Secretary, is taking steps to ascertain who was responsible for the introduction qf the American system.