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or•P-•o-VROfn-idid-,o-es3t,58*SS*8.g,»e,intn*iisr-dareillbeof;o-lyinFake Report InTimber InquiryDisclosures of “Treason 'and Treachery” of Employees in Ontario Lands Departmentg0TORONTO, Dee. 23.—In view of disclosures and alleged “treason and treachery” of employees in the department of lands and forests, exposed at the Ontarfo timber inquiry yesterday Commissioners Riddell and Latchford hmy not make a report for. a while on the results of the investigation of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper company, though the ev'denee in this case is all In. Whether the case will be roopened or not is not known.At .the morning session the commissioners described the conduct of P. J. Niven, secretary in the lands and for-a1 ests department, as treachery. The [Zr matter arose when G, C. Hurdman, formerly crown Umber agent at Sud-?: on bury, charged that a fake report in ’ iy connect’on with the checking up of»( 3t» i the Spanish River Pulp and Paper | n- company had been made by Sam i ie Marks, a government employee. The t, at alleged fake report, whici^ was un- * favorable to the company,, had been1 c 's- prepared for Robert Harding, former ry crown counsel in the timber inquiry.^3, The commissioners particularly objector ed because neither they nor the crown 's. counsel, Mr. Harding, had been in* vq formed by Hon. Beniah Bowman, minister of lands and forests or Niven or ie Hurdman, of the fake report.of
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Fri, Dec 23, 1921
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