“SCRIM” WATCHED!
EX-MINISTER’S ADMISSION.
SIGNIFICANT OBSERVATIONS. • (Special to “Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 10. “My instructions were that Mr. Scrimgeour had to be watched and that if he overstepped the mark he was to be stopped. I did not know what steps were being taken in that respect.” This was the reply of the former Postmaster-General, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, in a telephone interview from Invercargill. “I would want to know more than is in your message from Mr. Jones before I make a detailed statement,” he said. “One think I wish made quite clear, and that is that if there is any blame attachable to anyone I will take it. I do not wish any officers of the Department to get into trouble. I will have to have time to give a considered reply. If it was a statement issued by Mr. Jones himself it would have been different.
“Let me repeat I don’t want any officers of the Department to bo blamed,” said Mr. Hamilton. ‘ I can discuss the matter with Mr. Jones. As a matter of fact. I was in Invercargill at the time, if I remember rightly.”
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19605, 10 January 1936, Page 3
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