Mokau Inquiry.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Mokau Committee resumed this morning to hear a statement by Mr Jones. Mr Jennings intimated that the statement should be confined to the matter before the Committee. Mr Jones said that he had prepared a short synopsis from 1876 to the present day, and would like the Committee to hear it. Mr Jennings reiterated that the statement would have to be confined to papers forming the subject matter of the inquiry.
Mr Jones' story was, he held, as well known as Robinson Crusoe's. He suggested that Mr Jones should a®ainl petition Parliament. The Committee would not allow the matter from 1876 to ne traversed.
Mr Jones said he wanted to produce Sir Robert Stout's and Judge Palmer's report and comment on it. Eventually the Committee decided to adjourn further hearing till Thursday to give Mr Jones an opportunity of re-casting his statement to begin at the time when the negotiations were opened by Mr Herrman Lewis.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12189, 26 September 1911, Page 5
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