MR SEMPLE’S CHALLENGE
ACCEPTED BY OPPOSITION. ROYAL COMMISSION REFUSED BY ACTING-PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON This Day. The challenge issued on Thursday night by the Minister of Public Works, Mr Semple, that if the Opposition could prove assertions made in the House that' he had squandered money on public works he would resign from public life and forfeit £lOO to the Crippled Children Fund, was accepted by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hamilton, when speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. It should be for a Royal Commission to test the challenge, Mr Hamilton said, and if the commission decided for the Minister the Opposition would gladly pay £lOO to the Crippled Children Fund.
At that stage the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, rose and indicated that there would be no commission or anything of the kind. If the Minister and the Leader of the Opposition cared to make any arrangement privately to settle the issue they could do it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1939, Page 9
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161MR SEMPLE’S CHALLENGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1939, Page 9
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