REV HOWARD ELLIOTT'S CHARGES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14512, 14 September 1917, Page 6

REV HOWARD ELLIOTT'S CHARGES.

COMMISSIONER'S REPORT

.JPOSTAE OFFICIAL^ EXONERATED

SECTARIAN VIOLICXCE DEPRE-

CATBU

(From Our, Parliamentary Corres-

pondent.)

Welllnglon, 3epfc. v l3. The report, of llr'Ji. \V. Bishop, S.M., the* oonmii^-ionpr who recently inquired into tie llov. Howard Elliott's charges of corruption in the Auckland Post Office, completely exonerates- the ■postal officials. Regarding the military censorship of box 9i2, Mr Bishop says it ws,s established on tho suggestion of the Solickor-Gi'iu.'Kil, who <^oiibidered tho correspondence passing through it mischievous aud likely Lo interfere with tho'^sucecfisful prosecution of tho war. It was ridiculous to • Say that* it had anything to do .with the -Bomnn-Catholic Church .'He-strongly; deprecated' the stirring -un of sectarianism-at- E^oh a time by the violent oratory of the Roy. MriElliott and his frieiids.