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FIFTH MEETING

2.15 p.m. 13th June 1906

Hoa .E.A.Hewett presided.

207

All the Members present

The Chairman i- I have told the Secretary of the Commission that it appears

desirable that he should go over with the witness the notes

of the previous meeting. That has been done so far as Mr

Woodcock is concerned. I find the notes are very full and it

and it has practically taken the whole of this morning to go

Carabin

over them. We could send copies of our notes to each witness

and it would be a very valuable saving of time p reading

everything in full at the following meeting. I propose,

you agree, to adopt that procedure for the future except

when I see very good reason in individual cases of not

following it.

if

P

Agreed.

The Chairman :-

Witness Im

The Chairman -

Notes corrected.

Page 164. Where is that analysis, Mr Toodcock ?

I have it here.

Well you had better hand it in. If the Secretary has made an

analysis of this sort we will tell him to make a fair copy

of it and hand it in. It is a paper we might like to have.

The Chairman -

Alteration suggested on page 180.

It wenkens your evidence very materially Hr Woodcock if you

come one day and say, Yes. and the next day you say, No..

I must point out to you that it weakens your evidence if you

ask permission at a later meeting of the Commission to make

opferndar

such a diametrical statement to what you said at a previous

meeting.

Witness 1 I am in the hands of the Commission. I don't deny that I

said, No.

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