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What concerns us is that he then goes on to

say :— " Much mud has been slung and many base insinuations have been made because Lieutenant-Colonel Spurner, as adviser to the Disposal Board, ,dealt with his brothers in this matter. These insinuations I can only call wicked and monstrous, and in my opinion van only 430Me from the minds of people who think how they would have acted in similar circumstances. Since the Armistice Leyland Motors have spent upwards of f1,500,000 with various•departments of the Disposal Board, and I should gladly welcome an inquiry into every -transaction -we have made. I am absolutelyy-oertain aboutrone thing, and that is that if we had had t o deal with-any other person than Lieutenant-Colonel Spurrierwe

should have been able to buy back our lorries on better terms than we did. Let the prices we paid be made public."