AUCKLAND WHARF THEFTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 18 August 1911, Page 4

AUCKLAND WHARF THEFTS.

MR GLOVER’S DENIALS. !.;,L wi(Per Press Association } { Wellington, August 17. The allegation made by one Hadden in connection with, the Auckland pillaging cases, against the member for Auckland Central, was denied by Mr A. Glover, who made a statement in the House of Representatives this afternoon. A wicked and cruel slander, lie said, had been uttered against him by one Hadden, that ho had offered to pay Hadden £ldO and ,w> take all blame in the robbery charges at Auckland, and to find him a Government billet. Proceeding, Mr Glover said ho had been 49 years in Auckland and could say his reputation was clean. He emphatically denied the statement imputed to him as published in the daily papers. On that denial he stated, his reputation depended. Even his enemies (and every• public man had enemies) would not believe him guilty of such wrongdoing. His friends would not even require his denial. (Hear, hear.) It was hard that a statement of such a damaging nature should he allowed to ho circularised through New Zealand without a statement in reply to the injustice to himself and his family. Ho asked the Press Association to make public his absolute denial, for a lie had a thousand lives, and, unfortunately, it. was easy to think evil. (Applause.)