The Coal Supply Scandal

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1509, 16 December 1905, Page 2

The Coal Supply Scandal

l!li' Abject Apology Presg Copyright. . i Stokei, this day. At tho Railipy Commission inquiry yos' terday Hfr. Thow, mechanical onginoer of railways, was called. BoMre ho was examined Mr. Hijlman a moinbir of tho Assembly, asliod to bo allo.ved to make a statemont.' 'Ha (laid that ho had made a Btatemout'intl)e Assembly whioh further knowledge had shown him to bo of an <«• coedingly rogrottible character. Ho deeply regretted making it, and would talio the first opportunity to make reparation as far aapossibloin Parli&meut. 1 He had done Mr. Thow, o deep injury. Mr. Thow was then examined 1 •denied that ho or his oifioer?,. directly or indireoily, had over taken' a bribe from .a.representative of any colliery with whom* tho liailway Commissioners doftlf. Hewas not m any way interested in nnv of tho Lithgow oollioriCß, Ho gave ovidonoe that tho acceptance of tho ooal tenders for tho railways was based, upon' tests which proved that the' coal.: from;tlxoVLiibgfew ABsooiaiion Collieries Was bettor 'suited for. steaming purposes. ' At the. inilway Commission yislorday Mr, Holman, M.L A, stated that tho whole'courso of.tho inquiry satisfied him that no rest on the ' integrity of Mr. Thow, .tncohamoal engineer of railways, t i ■