CROWN LAW OFFICE INQUIRY

Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 18

CROWN LAW OFFICE INQUIRY

MR HOLLAND’S PROTEST. NO CHANCE GIVEN TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON. December 5. In connection with Dm AttorneyGeneml’s .statement regarding the inquiry into the charges made by Mr Holland. M.P., against' Mr Wilson, Crown Solicitor fit. Westport (and Dm latter's vindication!, .Mr Holland lias addressed Die following i letter to Die Attorney-General; “In to-day's IV.-,- ! have seen Die slate- ■ mcut issued by your department, in answer to complaints voiced by me in the .House with respect, to Air A. A. Wilson, and 1 I note you have ‘ made. Die investigation asked for.’ 1 want, to take, the strongest, possible, exception, to tins statement. After I hnd spoken in the House Die Hon. C, .1. Parr definitely promised that an inquiry would be, held. That, promise has not been kept, and I have not. at. any time been notified to attend an inquiry, 1 have never been given an opportunity to produce evidence of Dm parlies making the complain!, and whatever investigation has been made has taken place in the absence of those who complained. ! am sure that, you will not, seriously expect urn to be satisfied with that form of inquiry. J am leaving for my home by to-night's Nelson boat, and I have, no time, to do more than make a hurried and most emphatic protest against such a farcical method of inquiry—a, method in which important facts have been left unstated. When I trench Westport I will make a further reply affecting the details of your statement. - ’