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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 938, 7 December 1933, Page 18

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Canterbury Silk Interlock Singlets and Shorts 5/11. See Plimsoll's advertisement. X SEARCHING QUESTIONS. WELLINGTON. December 7. A searching scries of questions relating to the report of the Con;roller and ral on the Native Affairs Department was put to Mr Forbes this atfernoon by Mr Savage. He asked if the Prime Minister could stato-if in his opinion the comment? of the AuditorGeneral were based upon proven facts and were a fair representation of those facts; whether the Prime Minister was aware of the additional star, m generally made and which were now public property in reference to freely alleged misapplication or misappropriation of funds entrusted to the Native Affairs Departmeni to eff< ct that at least one prosecution was pending and that several Government auditors accompanied, by a detective have gone to the Rotorua district to carry out further investigation. Whether or not the Opposition will move an adjournment of the House to enable the report to be discussed depends on Mr Forbes’s reply to Mr . -don. ME CAEE'S QUESTIONS. WELLINGTON, December' 7. Notice was given by Mr Carr (Labour, Tit aru) in • Ilouse today of his intention to ask for a return showing the total cost of the Wilberforce gold prospecting expedition last winter, conducted under the aegis of the Unemployment Board, the amount paid in wages and in transport, the recipients of these amounts, and in particular the amount, received by Mr Herbert Jessep, of Alaska.