DEFECTIVE TUNNELS
MINISTER AND MR DOWNIE STEWART (Special) WELLINGTON, Oct;. 23.' The Minister of Works, Mr R. Semple, in a statement, commented on the newspaper article by Mr W. Downie Stewart in which Mr Stewart discussed the question of responsibility for the defective Turakina and Fordell tunnels. The Minister said that he had no intention of being drawn into a controversy on this matter with Mr Stewart. “If there had been anything worth while in Mr Stewart’s statement which called for a reply or which had not already been reiterated ad nauseam in the parliamentary debate on the tunnels I may have been persuaded to give a considered reply,” said Mr Semple, “ but this is a poorly-disguised attack on me personally, and I do not intend to be baited into giving Mr Stewart a bit of cheap publicity in his attempt to fan the personal vendetta launched against me. As I said in Parliament, I am prepared to be tried at the bar of public opinion, but not by my political enemies or by Mr Stewart, who was the victim of the political order of the boot in his own home city.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 4
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