ALLEGED CEMENT TRUST.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1921, Page 7

ALLEGED CEMENT TRUST.

THE MINISTER AND MR. MASTERS. CHARGE AND A REPLY. The Minister of Industries and Commerce, during his reply in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night to the cement charges, read a letter from Mr. Luttrell, managing director of the Golden Bay Company, in which he stated that Mr. Masters informed him that, if be did not make his position as selling agent safe, he intended to attack the company in the House. Mr. Masters was given permission to make a personal explanation. “I have been misrepresented,” he said, “not by the Minister, but by the letter he has read to the House. The Minister stated that Mr. Luttrell says that I met him and said that unless I made satisfactory arrangements as regards the cement agency in Taranaki I would expose the whole thing in the House. I want to give that an absolute denial. I never discussed that matter with Mr. Luttrell in any way. As regards the agreement, Mr. Luttrell did not know that I had an agreement, and, further than that, he would be the last man I would tell that I had it. I want to say that I never discussed anything of this whatsoever. I give that statement a deliberate denial, and, further than that, 1 want to say I am not affected at all. I am selling cement for Wilson’s to-day, and it has not affected me at all.”