BRIBERY & CORRUPTION.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15271, 22 June 1923, Page 5

BRIBERY & CORRUPTION.

MEMBER’S ALLEGATIONS.

MINISTER REFUTES CHARGES. A MEMBER'S ALLEGATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The - words “bribery and corruption” were freely used by one of the Opposition members (Mr W. A. Veitch) in the House of Representatives yesterday when referring to the activities of the Prime Minister ond the Minister of Education during the Tauranga campaign. Mr Massey, beyond expressing a corrective interjection, took little notice, but Hon. G. JParr took an opportunity when Mr Veitch had finished his speech of offering the facts to the House by way of personal explanation. The Minister of Education took strong objection to the suggestion that his offer of a District High School at Morrinsville coincided with his activities in the electorate in which Sir Joseph Ward was so signally defeated by Mr C. B. McMillan. “It is suggested that I did an illegal thing on the eve of an election,’ said Mr Parr. “The whole of the correspondence fully vindicates the legality of my action. There was a resolution by the Council of the Education Conference that District High Schools should be established where attendances were likely to be satisfactory, and the only thing necessary was for Morrinsville to get a sufficient proportion of pupils. I accordingly established the High School there on the same day as at the request of three Education Boards there were provisional high schools established at Piopio, Warkworth, Patea, and Riverton.”