MR. HUGHES’S CONSTITUENCY
REPORTED DONATION DENIED
Melbourne, April 29
Mr. Hughes is indignant at the report that he proposed donating £15,000 to Bendigo. The statement emanated from the Mayor of Bendigo, who received an unsigned communication purporting to come from Mr. Hughes. Tho Mayor convened a meeting to decide on the allocation of the money. Mr. Hughes stated that the matter had been referred to the police. He knew nothing about it. Evidently it was the work <f some person for personal or political reasons. If it had been true it would have peen one of the most shameful attempts to bribe a constituency in tho history of Australia. —Press Assn.
[A message published yesterday stated that Mr. Hughes had announced that as a mark of appreciation of the loyal support given him by the constituency of Bendigo, he had decided, on .the eve of his departure for England, to donate .£15,000 out of the £25,000 recently presented him by the people of Australia, on account of services rendered during the war and at the Peace Conference, to the Bendigo miners’ sick fund, the. Bendigo School of Mines, and to farming interests.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 176, 21 April 1921, Page 5
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192MR. HUGHES’S CONSTITUENCY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 176, 21 April 1921, Page 5
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