BUDGET SECRETS
QUESTION OF LE&AGE INQUIRY IN BRITAIN PERSONNEL OF TRIBUNAL (Received May 7, G. 5 p.m.) British "Wireless RUGBY, May 6 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons ta-day that the president of the tribunal of inquiry into the alleged leakage of Budget secret 3 would be Sir Samuel Porter, one of the judges of the King's Bench Division.
The two other members, said Mr, Chamberlain, would be Messrs. Gavin Simonds and Roland Oliver, both King's Counsel. The inquiry would be opened at the Law Courts next Monday.
Sir Samuel Porter has been a Judge of the King's Bench Division since 1934. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1905 and served in the Great War. He was knighted in 1925. Mr. R. G. Oliver has been Recorder of Folkestone sinco 1926. He was educated at Marlbo;rough and" Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Mr. G. T. Simonds had a distinguished scholastic career at Oxford University, and "was called to the Bar in 1906. He became a King's Counsel in 1924 and a Bencher at Lincoln's Inn in 1929.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22413, 8 May 1936, Page 11
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