GRANTING HONORS.
DESPICABLE ALLEGATIONS. UNDER SHELTER OF PRIVILEGE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 18. In the House of Lords, Lord Forres, referring to Mr. McNeil’s allegations in the House of Commons regarding the firm of Balfour, Williamson and Company, stated that the whole of the firm’s trading transactions had the cognizance and approval of the Government. Mr. McNeil’s statement about an alleged letter to Chile agents was absolutely untrue and without foundation. The allegations were despicable. The Lord Chancellor said that Lord. Forres had been cruelly wronged. No man who claimed Parliamentary privilege should make a statement deeply reflecting on the honor of a member of the House without making that statement publicly, unsheltered by privilege. The Lord Chancellor added that Lord Forres was offered a post in the Government and a peerage as far back as 1996. He hoped Mr. Ronald McNeil would not refrain from repeating his charges in circumstances free from the protection of his privilege as a member of Parliament.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1922, Page 7
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164GRANTING HONORS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1922, Page 7
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