ROYAL COMMISSIONS
POWER TO COMPEL WITNESSES' ATTENDANCE,
(Keceived July 25, 1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July SI. In the House of Representatives Mr ft ugJ.es, Attorney-General, in moving ttie jsecond reading of a Bill to amend the Royal Commissions Act by giving stronger power, said tho Act bad proved most ineffective. The Sugar Commission had been flonted and defied. The powers of r.ho Commonwealth were found utterly futile to compel file attendance of witnesses.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8182, 25 July 1912, Page 8
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72ROYAL COMMISSIONS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8182, 25 July 1912, Page 8
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