SUGAR COMMISSION
A SERIOUS POSITION COMMISSION ADJOUIiXfiI). (Keeoiml Last -Night, 10 o'clock.). . SYDNEY, May 2. ' A serious situation has been created in tlio Sugar Commission, Mr Knox, and other directors of tho Sugar Company, have failed to attend. Mr Kater, the Chairman of Directors, wrote stilting that Mr Knox, tho manager, know ail that ho and the other directors know. Tho directors decided that he shouid represent them, nnd Mr Knox wrote a long letter in which he declared that as he had not been su : >-' plied "With-a copy of tho evidence, us promised by the Commission, ho was unable'to rebut'the I 'statements whieh were xiati-ue/.4an"d"therefore ho' coi:M not submit himself for examination. Mr Justice:-;' Gordo n, - Chairman of the-Commission,, declared that he did not know that tho Company had any right-to dictate as to who should givo evidence. Dealing 11 with Mr Knox's letter, he stated thai.the exciiso seemed very like shuffling regarding the statement that Commission promisrJ to supply a copy of the evidence. "I characterise tic statement as a deliberate lie, and I only said that I did not object to a reporter supplying a copy, if it interfered with his work. The-reporter found that it did cot interfere with his work, and men L .ioue<l I that the company had two shorthand writers present at all meetings of the Commission. Mr Knox's excuse is not genuine to deliver it in covert defiance of the authority of tho Commfs* sion."
Sp far...the Commission has met with ■•-little success so far as ;my revelations in regard .to the company are concerned. - .-*-.. All the. officials at the mill wore iin - aware whether they were working at n profit or a loss. Muffled secrecy -pio- '■ vailed over the"whble arena of the Company's servicer- Being in the city, he would not take .it upon himself - of , authorising a. prosecution. "These gentlemen, are n-oi attending, hut leave is to the Federal Government." The Crtiurais'rfon.has been' adjourned , i'o.r a, week. .''.''
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 May 1912, Page 4
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327SUGAR COMMISSION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10626, 3 May 1912, Page 4
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