THE MARINE SCANDAL.
THE PREMIER DEFENDS THE • . . GOVERNMENT. HON HALL-JONES’S .TELEGRAM. ’• ■ "PRESS ASSOCIATION. ' Dunedin, February 25. In the course of an address at Lawrence last night, the Premier ■ referred 1 to the ■ marine prosecutions in Wellington , defending the Government from the charge of corruption in connection therewith, and read the following telegram from the Hon Mr Hall-Jones, Minister of Marine : —“Jones was examined on 13th and 19th July. My rough note on en-. velopo, with no signature, date, or address, would have been made probably, in May. Allport says it was handed to him by Allman on Sth ’July, 1897." You ..were not in.the. country at- the time, and wo at no time had any conversationabout Jones, his certificate, or anything concerning him until some 'time after Mr Hutcheson’s {speech. I never authorised a permit allowing his examination, and was not aware that one was required or had been given until the eve of the magisterial inquiry.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3675, 27 February 1899, Page 5
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