GRAFT TRANSACTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1928, Page 3

GRAFT TRANSACTIONS

SYDNEY COAL CONTRACT ENQUIRY. JUDGE TI 10.MPJON'S FINDING. ('Australian Press Association). SYDNEY. Nov. 21. .I ncl'fi' Thompson's report on the City Council coal contracts, recent I v the subiect of investigations, wav rivni’able to-chiv. .1 udi.ro Thompson found that Iwo persons mainly re pmisiblo lor the introduction of bribery were A) . John • on. Ma.na for R. Byrnes Limited, ui 1 R. Woof, a former superintendent ,f (!>e Gi‘ v Com" il’s Power House. bnd V( „! the trust of their •'•’ic five employers, and aTso acted " bnnoMlv toward some people with 1 list cl gr;vl t t r’Misjict i f >ns. '■'->‘b ,v " ( v i’uolieated hv their own swim statements and admissions "Lib' '--'as Mating was implicated bv ■ 1,., evidence of Joliiiston and Y\ oof, ••■ui ■■■'•■lissiinis to the noli'-c ius-'v-tor who interviewed him in New Zealand. v„,!, lew] obtained eonsiclerahle sums bv iveT’s of graft. Johnston, however. became ill during the in«| n’iry, and eventually died. Judge Thompson declared that there was the gravest suspicion regardin' - , (he part- played hv the former Lord Ylavor. .Moslvn, and the ex-Alderman. English, while cx-Alderman Holds•vorth impressed Judge Tlionqiso;'. ■is an uureliahle witness, unworthy of crcleiicc.