TRIAL OF MALING
(Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 24. Hearing; of the case in which Silas Noting Haling is charged with corruptly receiving £IO,GOO in, connection with a powerhouse contract between Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., and the City Council was to-day continued. A. J. Arnot (manager for Babcock and Wilcox Coy) resumed his evidence. He said he told Haling that the latter was running a. great risk when lie said that he would suggest a suitable person through whom; money could he sent from England. Haling laughed, and replied: “There is no risk.” Witness said that the £GQO added to the £IO,OOO was to cover expenses. He wrote to his firm’s principal in England, and the money came later. In the Haling case, Arnott said that the money which came out of his firm’s pocket was not added to the contract prices. Witness said that when he told the Iloyal Commission that lie had on a previous occasion had to give £250 to an Alderman, he di’d not regard that as graft, hut merely as a present. The hearing was adjourned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1928, Page 1
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