INQUIRY NEARS END

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20507, 18 March 1941, Page 11

INQUIRY NEARS END

ALLEGED NEWS LEAKAGE MOVEMENTS OF SHIPPING ACTIVITIES OF RAIDERS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The commission appointed to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the loss of certain ships by enemy action, and possible leakages of information from New Zealand, has been sitting continuously for the last six weeks. The personnel of the commission is Mr. Justice Callan, chairman, Mr. T. F. Anderson, Captain F. A. Macindoe, the Hon. William Perry, and Captain E. Rotherham, R.N. The commission has not found it necessary to sit elsewhere than at Wellington and Auckland. Nearly 100 witnesses have been examined and a great volume of evidence taken. The witnesses have included not only survivors from the captured ships but also persons who appeared able to indicate the sources of possible leakage and useful precautions against it. . A great number of useful suggestions have been received in writing from members of the public m various parts of the Dominion. Naturally it has often happened that the same suggestion has been received from several correspondents. It is anticipated that the commission will have completed its task by the end of the present week. Any person having information which may be of use to the commission is requested to make it available before then. The commission is,sitting daily at Wellington.