AUDIT ENQUIRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1591, 1 November 1905, Page 3

AUDIT ENQUIRY.

| .(Pen Press Association.) mu' . WelllD B |ioD . >a»» night. •ThO Audit Oommieslon oontlnned its lilting to-day. .Joseph Willis stated that he now be■WH that - Captain Seddon had not re* %®v payment in oonneotion with tho |eher whioh wiioess and otbors had (Vllilirtt John Laroombe, another olerk d'tiChriatohnroh post offioo, oorroboruffWillls’s Btatomonl as to soeing the adiisr, His belief as to the oxlatanoe of stynoher was nnbrokep. , Waller West, clerk In tbo •- tobnreb post offioo, corroborated the aoo of Willis and Laroombe as to J the voucher. « tnoss said: “ Whether the depart* books show it or not ( I swear that .*om 860 and will swear it as long as 11 rtc'y I

Taler.—Giving evldonos boforo tbo lesit Commission today, Willian Larioa.bo, olerk in the Ohristohuroh post write, with 22 years’ aervioe, swore that pfnhad handled a genuine vouoher in favor •Japlaia Seddon. Nothing would contoco him to the contrary, or shako his Klief that the vouoher was still in evi* jwjnoe. Ho was as oertaiu that he had , i the voucher as he was that he was Ntnuding in the Court. Thomas West, olerk in the Chrlatchuroh past office, with 10 years’ aervioe, said he had seen the vouoher and would swear to it as long as hq lived. He had not been promised that if he stuck to his statement a situation would bo provided for him. What he said was that a congratulatory lelogram Was received from a Mr Wake at Wangaaui, offering a position to Willis. David London, for seven years olerk in the Obrisloburoh post office, gave evidenoo that he had soon the missing voucher. He did not suffer from any hailuoinatioos, nor had he a grievance against tbo Government.