WHARF PILLAGING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 August 1911, Page 5

WHARF PILLAGING.

MR GLOVER'S DENIALS

BT TELEGBAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION,

WELLINGTON, Aug. 18. The allegation made by one Hadden in .connection with the Auckland pillaging cases, against the member for Auckland Central, was denied by A. Glover, who made a statement in the House of Representatives this afternoon. A wicked and cruel slander, he said, had been uttered against him by one Hadden, that he had offered to pay Hadden £150 and to take all blame in the robbery charges at Auckland, and to find him a Government billet. Proceeding, Mr Glover said he had been 49 years in Auckland and could say his reputation was clean. He emphatically denied the statement imputed to him as published in the daily papers. On that denial he stated, his reputation depended. Even his enemies _ (and every public man had enemies) would not believe him guilty Of SUCh wrongdoing. His friends would not even require a denial. (Hear, hear.) It was hard that a statement of such a damaging nature should be allowed to be circularised through New Zealand_ without a statement in reply to the injustice to himself and his family. He asked the Press Association to make rmblic his absolute denial, for a lie had a thousand lies, and, unfortunately, it was easy to think evil. (Applause.)