SAMOAN COMMISSION.
SITTINGS NEARLY ENDED. MUCH IMMATERIAL EVIDENCE. A. and JI.Z. APIA, Oct. £5. The taking of evidence before the Sanioan Commission was practically finished yesterday evening, although a sitting in chambers to-day will possibly result in one or more witnesses being heard. Otherwise the public sittings will stand adjourned for two days to give counsel time to prepare their addresses. The commission has now sat on 25 days, usually for six and a-half hours, and bas heard scores of witnesses, some of whom spoke as individuals, and some spoke iS representatives of scores of other people. Much irrevelant evidence has been adduced, and yesterday the chairman, Sir Charles Skerrett, repeated his observation of two weeks' ago, that anywhere else but in Apia, " where for some unascertained reason there is a peculiar atmosphere of suspicion," he would have stopped the immaterial evidence that had been adduced that day by Mr. F. H. Baxter m his cross-examinations, The members of the Sanioan Commission will return by the Niagara, which is due at Auckland on Monday, November 7. Mr. V. R. Meredith, who appeared for the Crown, will also return by the Niagara. Advice to Giis effect was received in .Auckland yesterday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19778, 27 October 1927, Page 11
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200SAMOAN COMMISSION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19778, 27 October 1927, Page 11
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