HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
PUBLIC TRUST OFFICP^
The House met at 2.30 p.m
Speaking to a motion by Mr Laurenson (Lyttelton) seeking information regarding the annual report of the Public Trust Office,
The Hon. A. L. Herdman (Minister in charge of the Public Trust Department), said he took the responsibility for not laying the report before the House. It was not, as had been alleged, the universal custom to lay a report on the table. He considered the report furnished by the Public Trustee a confidential document which should not go before the House. Any report so treated should not contain a statement of policy, but only a review of the past year's working. The Public Trustee had no right to discuss some of the questions he had discussed. % They were purely matters for Ministers of the Crown. It was very obvious, from what had transpired recently, that someone in the printing office or Public Trustee Office had committed a very grave breach of faith. The fact that a garbled report appeared in the "New Zealand Times", was evi[dence that someone had betrayed his trust.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1913, Page 3
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