THE MEIKLE COMMISSION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8329, 10 January 1907, Page 5

THE MEIKLE COMMISSION

By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 9. Counsel for the applicant spent most of to-day in addressing the Meikie Commission. Counsel said the archives of the police had been ransacked to discover evidence of offences against morality, committed by Meikie, and anything that was found had been' brought before the Commissioners, and made the subject of cross examination. Insinuations of grossly immoral crimes had been made in regard to matters which could form no proper part of the case for the Crown. He (Mr Atkinson) considered he had a right to protest against the attitude taken up by the Crown for it seemed doubtful whether Meikie was charged with a breach of;, the seventh or eighth Commandments, and as to which offence the Commission was set up to inquire into. ! Mr Justice Cooper said Meikie 1 had specifically denied in. the witness box that he had any intercourse with that woman and afterwards he had retracted that statement. j Mr Justice Edwards said it was the part of a man to protect a woman, but here Meikie had blackened the woman's character, and had sought to shift the blame to himself on to the shoulders of his own nephew.