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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1928, Page 3

ALLEGED BItIBERY. | (Reclived this day at H>. 1.5 a.in.' SYDNEY. Fel>. BJ. The acting Premier. Mr Butteiisliaw will place helure a meeting <>l Cabinet to-morrow, a rapiest by the Central Council of the Miners Fed- | craticm that a Koval Commission | should be appointed to investigate the j allegations of bribery concerning Stockton borehole colliery. Minister generally take the view that the Ministry should postpone a decision until Mr Bavins returns from New Zealand on Saturday. | ion re addressing an aggregate meeting of miners at Cessnock read a letter, which he said he had sent to Mi Badclelly. Minister in the Lang Cabinet. which stated :—‘•While in attendance at Stockton borehole colliery I was pressed by speakers to give the names of those who had been mentioned to me. T refused till I have had the opportunity of letting you know, it was you. That you had a Leant,fu) mansion at Belle Vue Hill and that what T received was only a fleabite. T replied at the time by saying I had been a Rip \ an Y\ inkle. flonvo explained why he had waited so long before exploding h.s bombshell. He wanted to get sufficient money so that nobody could say it was iiis money lie was paying in mi propaganda purposes. The name 0 "Willis, another of Lang’s Ministers, was also mentioned.