Page 579 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 April 1994
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Mr Humphries: How has there been? I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. No-one on this side of the chamber has made any reference to the personality or the character of Mr Michael Dowd.
MADAM SPEAKER: It is not a point of order, Mr Humphries.
Mr Humphries: We have said that he is not a director of VITAB.
MADAM SPEAKER: There is not a point of order before me, Mr Humphries. Order! Continue, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I have this statutory declaration from Mr Dowd:
I, Michael Dowd, of Anchor House, Kumul Highway, Port Vila, in the Republic of Vanuatu, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:
Neither I nor any company in which I own shares has any interest in the business conducted by Mr Alan Tripp in Vanuatu ...
Remember trying to blacken Mr Dowd in relation to the Numbawan Betting Shop, trying to associate people with the Vanuatu betting shop called the Numbawan Betting Shop?
Mr Humphries: I did not say anything about that. That is not so. That is a lie, Wayne. That is a lie.
Mr Wood: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Mr Humphries will need to withdraw that.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, I ask you to withdraw that.
Mr Humphries: Madam Speaker, it is not true. No-one said anything of that kind - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: I have asked you to withdraw. Mr Humphries, you have been asked to withdraw. You will withdraw.
Mr Humphries: In deference to you, Madam Speaker, I withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you.
MR BERRY: I will go through that paragraph again. It reads:
Neither I nor any company in which I own shares has any interest in the business conducted by Mr Alan Tripp in Vanuatu known as "Numbawan Betting Shop" or any other business conducted by Mr Alan Tripp or by any company of which he is a director.
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