THE DARWIN ENQUIRY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1717, 7 January 1920, Page 5

THE DARWIN ENQUIRY.

NORTHERN TERRITORY SCANDAL

FURTHER EVIDENCE.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Gable aooooiatioL Received January 7, 8.50 a.m, ' DARWIN, Jkn. 6. Before the commission of enquiry Mr Bar ratfc asked Mr Carey: “Did not Dr Gilruth try to buy the Northern Territory foi a private company for £4.000,000 or £5,000,000?” Mr Carey replied: “No. He asked the Government if it would sell the territory ft a chartered company.” —. , Witness believed one of the essentia 1 points in the proposed company was that only white labour would be employed. Witness further stated that Dr Gilruth and the other officials were fairly popular in the territory at first. Ho considered the later change of feeling was largely due to industrial reasons.

Witness said that ho left Darwin fearing personal violence from Bolshevik Russians and other undesirables and extremists. He denied that Dr Gilruth made a practice of sending round a “black” list of people who offended tho administration in order that these people might be debarred from all Government employment. r