THE MARINE SCANDAL.
THE PREMIER'S STATEMENT. PKESS ASSOCIATION. Done din, Tuesday. The Premier has authorised the press to make the following statement on his behalf in reference to the charge circulated that ho was a party to Captain Jones going up for his master-mariner’s examination without previously having obtained a mate’s certificate: — “ I neither spoke to the Hon Mr HallJones about Captain Jones’s examination, nor did I write to Him. I went away to England in April, and the examination took place in July. The first I knew of Captain Jones or his examination was after Mr Hutcheson, senior member for Wellington. had made his speech in the House. The evidence given by Mr Allport in the Magistrate’s Court was incorrect. The Minister of Marine was summoned by the defence, and would have given evidence. Thera was no direction for Jones’s captain’s examination. Counsel for Crown entered a nolle prosequi against the express wish of the Minister to go on, and thus prevented the Minister of Marine clearing himself of the imputation that he bad given a direction or interfered in the slightest way.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3677, 1 March 1899, Page 6
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184THE MARINE SCANDAL. New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3677, 1 March 1899, Page 6
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