ALLEGATION OF CORRUPTION
CROPLEY INQUIRY HELD UP
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SYDNEY, Nov. 17. There was an unexpected development at the Cropley inquiry to-day. When the commission met, Mr. Watt, counsel for Aldermaii Walker, announced that he had' obtained a Supreme Court rule nisi, prohibiting the inquiry from proceeding. Mr. Watt said he had taken this step in consequence of certain statements made on Friday regarding his client when the latter was absent. He took it as a fundamental principle of justice that if charges are made against a man, they -should be made when he is present and able to answer. Mr. Watt entered a protest against these proceedings being kept in the records of the case.
The commissioner adjourned the inquiry until the writ is dealt with 011 Thursday. In support of the rule nisi it is claimed that the Cropley Commission is illegal and contrary to law. inasmuch as its real purpose is to inquire into a criminal conspiracy to obtain a bribe, such a crime being properly cognisable by a court of law, and that the commission is not such a court.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 5
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