GOODE INQUIRY
THE HEARING CONTINUES. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, June 24. At the Good e Inquiry to-day, the main witness was Haroid Waldrom, Director of the British Express Transport Coy., who gave evidence that Mr Goode became an “honorary director” of his Company in 1927, and that for a considerable period he received regular payments of five guineas, and later five pounds a week, from the company.
These payments were originally shown as “publicity,” and when the auditor demurred, they were changed to' 1 payments to a man not an employee of the company. Doctor Wall, a member of the Legislative Council, was also interested in th e Company. Mr Goode had assured witness (Waldrom) that he could make the‘company a great success, as he could induce iseveral merchants to give the company haulage trad e quite apart from business coming from the railway)’. Mr Goode added that he could keep fifty jorrios .going on railway and other work. The company forthwith ordered six lorries. The hearing was adjourned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 5
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