DEFECTIVE TUNNELS
Minister And Mr. Stewart Reference was made yesterday by the Minister of Works, Mr. Semple, to the statement of Mr. Downie Stewa'rt appearing iu “The Dominion” on Tuesday in which Jie discussed the question of responsibility for the defective Turakina and Fordeil tunnels. The Minister said that he had no intention of being drawn into a controversy on this matter with Mr. Stewart. “If there had been anything worth while in Mr. Stewart’s statement which called for a reply or which had not already been reiterated ad nauseum in the Parliamentary debate on the tunnels I may have been persuaded to give a considered reply.” said Mr. Semple, “but this is a poorly-disguised attack on me personally, and I do not intend to be baited into giving Mr. Stewart a bit of cheap publicity in his attempt to fan the personal vendetta launched against me. As I said in Parliament. I am prepared to be tried at the bar of public opinion, but not by my political enemies or by Mr. Stewart, who was the victim of the political order of the boot in his own home city.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 23, 21 October 1944, Page 8
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