MOKAU LAND INQUIRY.
STATEMENT BY MR JONES. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, September 2G. The Mokau Committee resumed this morning to hear the statement by Mr Jones. Mr Jennings intimated that the statement must bo confined to the matter before the Committee. Mr Jones said lie had prepared a short synopsis from 187(5 to the present day, and would like the Committee to hear it. Mr Jennings reiterated that the statement would have to be confined to the papers forming the subject matter of the inquiry. Mr Jones’s story was, ho said, as well known as Robinson Crusoe’s. He suggested that Mr Jones should again petition Parliament. The Committee would not allow the matter from 1870 to be traversed. Mr Jones said he, wanted to produce the Stout-Palmer report and comment on it. Eventually the Committee decided to adjourn further hearing till Thursday to give Mr Jones an opportunity of recasting his statement, to begin at the time when negotiations were opened by Mr Herman Lewis.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 35, 26 September 1911, Page 5
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