PAYMENT MADE TO CROWN
ONE OF McARTHUR’S COMPANIES. EXPLANATION BY MR. MEREDITH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Sept. 8. In connection with evidence given by Stanley Grange, a sharebroker, before the Royal Commission investigating companies at Sydney, in which it was stated fhat £750 had been paid by one of McArthur’s companies to Mr. V. R. Meredith, Crown solicitor at Auckland, Mr. Meredith, who is at present on a visit to Napier, offered an explanation of the position to-day. “The sum of £750,” Mr. Meredith said, “was paid to me as Crown prosecutor acting for the Crown in recovering money due to the Railway Department and the Land and Income Tax Department. This money was received in settlement of the claims and was forthwith paid into the public account in the ordinary way.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1934, Page 5
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