INTEREST SUSTAINED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 303, 20 November 1936, Page 7

INTEREST SUSTAINED.

MRS FREER’S CASE. CANBERRA, Nov. 19. Mr T. Paterson (Minister of the Interior) and Mr R. G. Menzies (AttorneyGeneral) were bombarded with further questions concerning Mrs Freer’s case in the House of Representatives to-day. Replying generally to Mr McCall (U.A.P.) and the Labour members, Messrs Blackburn, Brennan, and Garden, Mr Paterson said that every investigation was being made into every fresh development, either in the Press or elsewhere. He had every confidence that the report on which the Government acted was absolutely correct. Moreover, the information oil which the Government acted undoubtedly could refer to none other than the woman who was refused admittance and who was now' in New Zealand. The Attorney-General, replying to a Government member, Mr Lane, said lie had not so far received a request from Mrs Freer’s counsel iii New Zealand for an impartial tribunal to investigate Mrs Freer’s exclusion. . Mr Paterson announced that Cabinet had adopted his recommendation that the responsibilitv for future exclusion of Rritish subjects should be shouldered by Cabinet as a whole. The Sydney Sun’s Canberra representative states that Cabinet will reconsider the - evidence on which Mrs Freer was excluded as soon as additional information now being sought from the Dominions Office and India u received.