MASTERTON’S PICTORIAL POSTER

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3391, 5 December 1911, Page 5

MASTERTON’S PICTORIAL POSTER

ADJUDICATORS’ STATEMENT CHALLENGED.

i (Per Press Association.) FEILDING, Deo. 4. Mr Trewin, one of the adjudicators in the Master ton pictorial advertisement re No-license, to-day received the following telegram from Greymouth : “4tb December, Trewin, barrister, Feilding. —Trade publish you were paid for report. Is everything in report incontrovertible ?—Scrivener.”

Mr. Trewin sent the following reply: “The statement made by the Trade that I was paid for the report is a villainous ’ie. The report is absolutely incontrovertible. Obtain names those responsible for report, that I may take proceedings.”

THE ADJUDICATORS’ DECISION FEILDING, Dec. 4.

With reference to the telegram about the arbitrators’ investigation of the Rev. Hammond’s statement that some pictures and statements published in a page of a supplement to the “Wellington Post” on November 2 were false, exception is taken to the words, “Therefore Mr. Hammond wins,” on tlio ground that- Mr. McManaway, the challenger, did not approve of the appointment of Mr. Trewin as one of the arbitrators. So far as payment of the £25 is concerned that matter is outside the meaning of the telegram, which was that Mr. Hammond was found to be correct in his statements by the two who investigated.