JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
STATEMENTS BY DR. FINDLAY. Fbt TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRiSTCHnitcH, Tuesday. The Attorney-General (the Hon Dr. Findlay) arrived from Wellington, and went on to Dunedin to-day. He told a reporter that the case of Inspector Gillies had been considered by Cabinet,; and it had been decided that the retirement must stand. The Prison Board would be appointed shortly, consisting of one lay member from each of the four centres, and three official members, including a judge of the Supreme Court. The new police regulations had been drafted, and were now being revised by the Crown law officers.,, They would be submitted to the police inspectors in due course. ' Promotions consequent on the retirement of high officers of the police force were not likely to be announced for a month or two.
Referring to the Webster claim,- Dr. Findlay explained , that Britain and the United States had agreed to ; the appointment of. an International , Commission to consider this and claims of a like nature between subjects of two Powers. The Commission would ; sit in Washington on a date to be fixed. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14587, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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