SUGAR COMMISSION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 11 May 1912, Page 5

SUGAR COMMISSION.

COLONIAL SUGAR REFINING

COMPANY

MANAGER AND

DIRECTORS

CHARGED

BY CAPI-E—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, May 10. Mr Knox and four other directors of the Sugar Company were charged with refusing to give evidence at the Commission.

Counsel for the defence declared that he intended to take every legal objection. He challenged the right of the Commonwealth to appoint a Royal Commission, and also challenged the right of the Governor-General to appoint a Commission, except by an Order-in-Council. He declared that the Long Parliament passed an Act in 1640 to prevent the Kins; enquiring into the private affairs of citizens. The case wa& adjourned.