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CHARGE AGAINST DIRECTOKS RIGHTS OF COMMONWEALTH CH/tLLiENCED. (Received Last Night, 9.20 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 10. tMr Klntox, chairman, and four other Directors of the Colonial Sugar Company, wore charged with refusing to give evidence before the Commission. Oouw&el for the defence declared that lie intended to take every legal objection, 'amid challenged the right cf the Common wealth to appoint a Royal Commission.. He also challenged the aught of the Gbverncr-General to appoint a. Commission except by an Qr-d'er->in-Co,imcil. He decHared 'that the ■Long Paulia;ment lvad passed an. Act .in 1640_t0 prevent tlie King from inquiring into tlie private affairs of citizens.
■Tlie case has been' adjourned till Tuesday.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10633, 11 May 1912, Page 5
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119SUGAR COMMISSION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10633, 11 May 1912, Page 5
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