MOTUIHI ENQUIRY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 4 February 1918, Page 6

MOTUIHI ENQUIRY

coNci.unixu ev idknck. (Hy lelegraph -I'ress Absociatioii.) AUCKLAND, La si. Night. The ( ourt-mart i.i! was resumed yesterday. .ludge Advoraie Iff*<n| said lie would like In make a sialt incut, which was tlih' not i>nlv lo ilie Minister, but to Mi •s Langgut.h. f iiioi'iua lion had boon communicated !o liiiu whieh. if correct, j>ut a cliti'ereiil aspect upon the pe:mil alleged I.i have been given by the .Minister. It was imadvisable t.o discuss the mat Ler at. present. An enquiry would bo held when it, was probable a necessary explanation would he made. The Court expressed a desire to put question lo Private Hope .Johnston, i who was not available yesterday, j Colon"! Fivderlek why lie left, i i'liui r Hi!!, who relieved him. and by whose authority he left just, before U.JH) p.m. j Witness said I here was tio definite post- there, lie could go irivwiiere. :.H" went simply because he could get 'a vend i iew of tilings. | To Lieut.-('olonel Sleeman witnes-' said be saw the lanncli arrive. He j\\ as then about hali -wav down tin* hill. ) To Colonel Porn't t : Tie saw ill" .'auiich lea.ve lor the niOoring. (Jo saw only two (icrnians with the cart, > which he saw going down to the uliarl. [|e saw uolhin<? on the cart ; Jt. Mas going for coal. I To the President.; He met Lietif.- , Colonel Trnner at the bottom of the | wharf. \\ itness then resumed his J walk and tin ned round at the gate, j.'ind went, back fo the launch. It j was then at the moorings. The time was between (3.20 .-wid 6.30 o'clock. ,11c did not see the dinghy. He did not; consider it important that the eart passed him a second time as he was going down hill again before he tamo off duty. | The President: Did you not consider it your duty to question these jinen seeing they should have been )'M the barracks ? Witness: Xo. Schmidt was looked j:pon as trustworthy, and was not infrequently employed on such work jflter hours. Erdniann assisting him. Therefore J did not think it unusual. Witness, replying t„ furtlTer questions, said he was practically Lhe last man coming off wl.at was 'known as the day area It was not part of his duty to see that no one in the buildings was in the outside enclosure. His | duty was to see that the men were Jn tlio CfiicloNure. The two men went, down before the tinio they should have been inside. I , S ! ,aw ' VCr ' xm > *■•"« tI.:H S Inn id I. had been working in the coal fart for several weeks. They wore af t ;md wi tl, 'c l v OU hring n|> snnl,, .pVjjr 1 " j Lieut. -Colonel Turner, recalled 1 ««"} he heard the cart going down! j/'. kno »'" >(- "as an extraordinary tiling rang „ p the guard room. He informed that Shaw had oivc, permission to Schmidt to bring up the <. Ml and luggage together. Witness therefore, was satisfied n,,' J l ~14 . JlI ?i Ke A(,VOC:,te ' S""M..ed lip r H, vo s' «»*& u , u,u n »d finding, which finned. when con-