CAPTAIN SEDDON'S DECLARATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 39, 15 August 1905, Page 6

CAPTAIN SEDDON'S DECLARATION.

The following is the declaration :— "I, Richard John Spotswood Soddpn, fc of, Wellington, captain, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :—: —

(1) During the whole period of my employment in the Public Seivice of New_ Zealand, t Jiav«

never received from the Imperial or New Zeaknd Government any payment whatever in Christchurch.

(2) I have never performed any services in or about reorfanising Defence Stores.

(3) I have never received in Cliri&tchurch or elsewhere any payment of between £70 and £80, or any other sum for re organising Defence Stores, either from the Imperial or New Zealand Government.

(4) I havo read the .statement inada "by Mr. Fisher, M.H.R., •wilh respect to a voucher for a payment to me of between £70 and £80, and I say that I never saw or received or signed any such voucher or received any such payment.

(5) I have never at any time or at any place received any sum or sums of money whatever fiom tlie New Zealand or Imperial Governments to which I was not 'legally and properly entitled under the terms of my engagemerit as a servant or officer of ■ either of the said Governments. R. J. S. SEDDON.' Sworn before D. M. Findlay, Solicitor.