A PROTRACTED INQUIRY.
Towards the close of the long--1 drawn-out inquiry into the circum--1 stances connected with the loss of the ■ steamer Tainui, Mr. S. G. Raymond, K.C., made the announcement that the 1 expenses incurred by the Marine Department m the matter of witnesses' payments amounted only to £55. It miist. not be inferred from this that • the proceedings were graced by equal abstemiousness all round, so far as the ■ squandering of money was concerned. ; When one cr.mes to take in(o eensid- ' eration the fees earned, during the eleven days en which the court sat, by the president, the assessors, the nu-
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NZ Truth, Issue 750, 1 November 1919, Page 6
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103A PROTRACTED INQUIRY. NZ Truth, Issue 750, 1 November 1919, Page 6
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