SIR JOHN FINDLAY'S COSTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20085, 20 May 1914, Page 4

SIR JOHN FINDLAY'S COSTS.

•With "a faculty tor misrepresentation peculiarly its own, the "Herald" last night, accusing Mr. Pirani of "quoting in detail the law costs paid by the Crown to Sir John Findiay, which he estimated at about £100,000." ' Mr. P«> anj quoted the firm of Findlay, Dalziel, and Co., the amount he stated was nearly £10,000, and the costs wive purely in connection with named wtevos -^tho reason named for mentioning them being the fact that compulsory taking of estates was too expensive, especially in law costs. Mr. Pirani ..> also accused of stating that he bad searched the records to bo sure til at every statement ho made was correc-— while the fact was that Mr. Pirani sai-1,. " every reference' I—or1 —or quotation—a very different thing. Our contemporary cannot possibly prove that assertion to be incorrect.- Then our contemporary seems to believe its readers are so gilUUe as to credit the statement that there was no stonewall on the Seeiod Ballot Bill, and "that members were noi allowed to speak AT ALJL. on the■ Sjcju'l Ballot Repeal Bill." The fact isjl-hat the consideration of the Conasrittt c stage of the Bill commenced at" 7-30 p.m. on November 18, and was not concluded uritil 3 a.m. on Wednesday, November 25, the whole of, that time being occupied in " discussion! 1 on the measure, points of order, and bogus new .clauses, and the Speaker expressed the ! opinion '' that the time of the country has treen wilfully wasted." According to the "Herald," By members being ruled out before they Lad spoken, indeed almost before they had opened their mouths.