Air Crash Information Inquiry Ends
WELLINGTON, Jan. 21. Final submissions were made yes- ! terday by counsel for the parties 1 represented at the investigation by a Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances relating to the release of information about the finding of the Electra aircraft which crashed on Mount Rua-pehu on October 23, and the subsequent recovery of the bodies of the passengers and crew. The Commission, Sir Harold Johnston, K.C., is to report by the end of January. Mr. W. E. Leicester, for the New Zealand Journalists' 1 Association, said the incideints t at Cowern's mill and the plateau in the Horopito area were not to the credit of those who were in control, but they certainly did not reflect adversely on pressmen. Mr.- J. F. B. Stevenson, f6r , thd Newspaper Proprietors' Associatiofi, suggested that the Commissibn should find there had' been an infringement of the liberty of tlie Prqss by the restriction's imposed on pressmen at Horopito and . the forward area. Mr. T. P, Cleary, who reptesen.ted the Crown, submitted there was no ; evidence that any direction was given by any Minister or senior officer of any department that news was to be withheld from the Press.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 January 1949, Page 4
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