REFERENCES IN PARLIAMENT.
When the report was presented Mr Massey asked whether it was intended to lay the evidence, as well as the report, before Parliament. The report, be said, was useless without the evidence. The Minister of Justice (Mr M'Gowan) said he did not think there was any necessity for laying the evidence the table, as it had ' already been published in the newspapers. Mr Mas?ey said that if the matter was considered important enough for the setting up of a Royal Commission, it should also be considered important enough for the evidence to bo laid before Parliament. The Premier said the request would bo considered, but the extent of these parliamentary papers was getting very burdensome, and nobody read them.— (' Hear, hear.") The cost of a lot of the stuff was wasted money, and if they had less it would be a great deal better.— (" Hear, hear.")
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Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 13
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