INSIDE INFORMATION”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 1

INSIDE INFORMATION”

OL MURRAY’S CHARGES ‘INNOCENT LAMB' IN MINORITY According to what Cr. W. H. Murray told a public meeting at roint Chevalier last evening the charges of engineering waste, hnoien at the Murray Charges, should really be known as the Phelan-Davis charges. Cr. Murray said that the whole inquiry resulted from Cr. E. J. Phelan asking him to take charge of a mot:on calling for investigations as he iCr. Phelan) was going to Wellington. When the committee was set up Crs. Phelan and J. Davis were very enthusiastic and were going to bring a iot of things to light. They were go- , ln f to produce evidence, and put a y v things right. They made a lot or bald statements without saying anything very specific. As he (Cr. ■Murray) did not know very much k little, and was told Dy the two other councillors that he w <’uld have to take his gloves off and ret into it.

At the next meeting these two rentlemen started to attack me, and, combined with the rest of the council, nave been attacking me ever since/* an innocent lamb recently as last meeting he 'went "an innocent lamb” —(laughter) "~to receive unexpectedly a full acount of his doings as a councillor to© vacation. He had prouat havi ng to reply to the report JJ.toort notice, when the committee the rest of the council Jr® *s©© n adjudicating upon it for days, miit* « yor r ©* u sed time, stating “You e *toer answer it now or for ever now your peace.” (Laughter.) thought went through my ,n «f a Mussolini has arisen in the metre. n (Laughter.) The speaker asserted that the newsth*” been ineffective in giving dLviA l> '!l 3^c toe information he had had to tJie c °Ud c H* The Press thr * en Ver V careful not to chronicle thp been elucidating on “'floor of the council. to give the meeting titi®*** totormation” concerning nuanthe o« kerbs and pitchers used by *aat» Silwduat at Nihotupu dam. a ndfl. in bitumen at the depots, and havp^f 1 * of other matters, which ftatPrt a ; r?ad y been published. He tumi , a niain buttress at Niho-toid-ai xi “ary dam was hanging in waoL-J aar toe earth supporting it had away. Mr £r Ce: That’s not true. Ity Pi? tray: If 1 can>t Prove it I will TQUjI t 0 any Public institution. y W * clerk uninformative the ' the speaker said, he rang Mk M T, n „ Clerk, as instructed, and **» toi/.u* 16 levels in the dams. He tl ‘*ht s, “ lat the waterworks engineer them - He pointed out that titm t h“ epr ? instructed to get informa- , the town clerk. The town IS. C h!“ ark «‘<l. "Well. I will see what 'httriclhJ 11311 of the tramway, and hr). nnd water, and (laugh*o xiv. o you can have it. I hnr V. ** to you. Probably to-mor-*m will deny this, but I '“tag the truth ” criminal libels E e * , 'd l th»f ,i° the inquiry he sugk 1 toe constitution was such B ©m«hi« ld i. not s P ea k out for fear © Ce and construed as mal- ► * stand . m toal libels resulting. J ity CourJn * minority of one in the tt u 1 h© remarked. Taylor;; Shame. |