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CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER - REVELATION AT INQUIRY 1 OTTAWA, May 13. (Received May 14, at 5.5 p.m.) • A revelation that «the Government owned the Canadian National (Ottawa) Hotel and paid 110,000 dollars to remodel a suite of 15 rooms for the Primp Minister (Mr Bennett), afterwards leasing the whole of it to him for only 400 dollars a month, and that the Railway Department expended 75,554 dollars in equipping a special railway coach for him created a sensation at a House of Commons railway inquiry. The Prime Minister states that the suite was secured on the understanding that he would entertain substantially in the hotel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21645, 16 May 1932, Page 8
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