REPORT ON A PETITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 317, 1 February 1922, Page 5

REPORT ON A PETITION.

’LI B CASH 0 V P. W. O’SULLIV-VN

The Defence Committee, reportin' yesterday to the House of Keprosenta tives on the petition of Patrick y Sullivan, of Palmerston North, who sought compensation tor wrongful arrests, recommended that the petition should be referred jo the Government “ for consideration.” . , j\l,. H K. Holland (Puller) objected to this report, tie argued that the case was clearly one in which the committee should have brought down a favourable report. O’Sullivan was a man who had three tunes enlisted am tried to go to the front. He had a n discharged finally as medically unlit. Viter this he had been arrested on a charge of failing to parade lor medical examination. On a later occasion still ho had been arrested tor alleged - section o„ .v warrant wlnch !*■ IW mime of Cornelius 0 Snllnan. tained a writ of habeas corpus and the military authorities had to rehmse ils they could not show cause toi his d toil thin. As the result of his arrests he p,'suffered loss. Air Holland moved that the petition should be referred back to the committee for furthei umsuhiatum. (!lenn (itangitikci) said that the Defence Committee had heard tlie case a year ago. and had then come „ „ unanimous decision. Hfttm* P<* Li been brolißht forward tins session. Mr J S. Dickson (Parnell said that the committee at the first «rm| o the ease had not been satisfied with the evidence of the petitioner, am particularly with the way m which the petitioner made up his state men • losses due to imprisonment. Hick w. . only' one member of the committee who had not heard the case last yeai. The motion to table the report was talked out.