N.S.W. WHEAT ENQUIRY.

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1921, Page 5

N.S.W. WHEAT ENQUIRY.

WITNESS WHO COULD NOT REMEMBER. SYDNEY, December 2. The Royal Commision which, is enquiring into the administration of the 1916-17 wheat crop, which has been hung up for several months, owing to the illness of Mr. George Georgeson, •re of the chief witnessec has been resumed for the purpose uf examining Georgeson, whose lost incniery, according to the medical evi has been Georgeson cl: that he was now capable of ■ .nducting his own business, but to pi • ily every question asked regard <•.■-t transactions, he declared 1 - not remember. He could rcr. that he was engaged in the wh< css, but no details. He said pe < K ame to his house and said he - . ispected of giving money to Minis' rs of the Crown, but though he could not remember he was quite satisfied he was as capable o fgiving money to Ministers as of committ murder; and as for giving money to politicians, he was certain he would not bo a party to giving the ma sixpence which was not oarne.d No money passed through his fingers wrongly. The Commission considered it useless 1 to further question Georgeson, and after examining doctors and other witI nesses upon the strength of whose af- ' fidavits the Commission reopened, Mr. Justice Pring, in view of the fact that no expected new evidence was forthcoming, adjourned the Commission. WHEAT SCANDAL. WAS POLITICIAN BOUGHT? SYDNEY, December 4. While under examination by the wheat commissioner, Georgeson is reported to have said that ho paid the election expenses of Mr Cann (State Minister of Mines) when he was a candidate for tho Federal Parliament. Mr Can gives this statement an emphatic denial.