REPORTER EJECTED

Evening Star, Issue 19784, 7 February 1928, Page 1

REPORTER EJECTED

FROM MAYOR'S ROOM HAD A CONTI DENT.TAL REPORT. Almost the final act of the year by the J,ord Alavor (Aldennau Mostyn) was to eject a ‘Daily Guardian’ re}ioitcr Iroin Ins room the jown Hull, says a Sydney paper. The reporter had earlier been questioned by. Detective-sergeant 'I honiley and Detective Grease, ol No. 1 police station, who found him in, possession o> a confidential report which had disappeared from Hie office nt the general manager of the elccfrieitv department (Mr Forbes Aiackay). The report was returned to the Town Hall. The land Mayor told the ‘Telegraph Pictorial ’ that' the ‘Guardian’ man declared that he was given the report by a man in the street, who said ho had it Irom an alderman.

" 1 was silting in my room alter Hie detectives had returned the report,” said the Lord Alayor, “ when i hoard somebody in the passage bellow out: ‘ Where’s Mostyn ?’

“1 Jieard my officer (Air Carnes) say; ‘The Lord Alayor, you mean?’ when the door was flung violently open, and in rushed the ‘ Guardian ’ reporter, pallid with rage. ‘A. man ought to punch your block off!’ he shout.>d. “ ‘ Have you gone mad?’ 1 said to him, went ou Alderman Alostyu. ‘What do you mean by rushing, in here? Get out of the room at once; Hare you come'here wanting to fight or just a barney? If if is light you want, I will he with .you, hut get cia of this room!’

“ 1 had jumped up from my elmir by this time, I can tell you,” added Alderman Moftyn. “Just as I vas coming round my desk my officer came in, and I told him to put the man nut. He went nut, .complaining that t had put detectives on to him, and he kept saying: ‘l’ll get you yet!’ “HE CAN HAVE FIGHT.” “He did not say when, though,” added the Lord Mayor. “Anyhow, I am ready for him. Ho can have all the fight, lie wants. It is in-t as well I did not come round my desk quickly, or 1 might have knocked him. The check of him!” Alderman Mostyn said lie had handed the detective’s report to the town clerk, who would bring it under the notice of the new Civic Commissioners when they fake over. In decide wli'it further action should, be taken. Detective - sergeant, Thornley said that, after returning the report, he. advised the Lord Mayor on a certain course of action The document was Mr Mackay’s confidential report on tenders received by the electricity undertaking for its coal supplies for three years (850,000 tons). 'The report will be considered by the Commissioners as soon as they take over the control of the city’s administration.