THE MEIKLE PETITION
TN a letter to THE SUN, John Meikle, who has petitioned Parliament for many years past for compensation for seven years’ wrongful imprisonment and a ruined life, states that £5,000 was placed on the Supplementary Estimates by the Ward Government. He received the sum of £2,500, and petitioned for the remainder. The M to Z Committee recommended that the petitioner should be granted a pension of £4 a week for life, but this had not been given effect to.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 93, 11 July 1927, Page 12
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82THE MEIKLE PETITION Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 93, 11 July 1927, Page 12
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