COURSING SCANDAL

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 5

COURSING SCANDAL

DOUBLE-CROSSING ALLEGED AGAINST SWINDELL. (Australian Press Association.) SYD/.EY, July 27. At the Mechanical Haro inquiry, Frederick Swindell, further examined* was asked for the reason for splitting a five thousand pounds . cheque- into smaller cheques. Swimlcrll . replied .that <t was to make .five transactions..;,<<hus reducing the rate of taxation, ' 1;

Mr Monahan, K.C., (assisting .the Commissioner) : “Wag it, not to ~defraud the Tax Commissioner .Swindell : “No.”

The 'Royal Commissioner.; ‘(Wasn’t the whole thing a fraud and/a .farce?” Swiirhll: '“No.” ( The Commissioner: “Then . it’s a matter of your, standards?”/

iSwindell: “The. cheques were made out in other’s names. I got no profit!” ‘fifiiMv-j ;

The Commissioner : , “You got “'.five thousand pounds for script for which you paid nothing.”

■SwjndfH ; “Yes, but it was only a smaller profit ” ,

The Commissioner: “That’s a matter for the Tax Commissioner.”

Swindell denied the portion of Felix Booth’s evidence, in which he said that if a certain company . ivere tonified; 427,500 should be paid if if, got a permit; to hold coursing, Michael Gleerion, Director of theAus-i trnlian Coursing Club, explained the; dealings withi Swindell, and the anxiety ; of various clubs to get licenses ‘when the mechanical coursing ■’was''‘restored. He declared that Swindell Had” he believed, “double crossed us '

The 'Commis'-idler: ” “That' word “double crossed”’ apparently, 1 "means that both parties l were in a 'crooked business, and tlmt one aftenvatds went crooked on the other; .Isn’t that the meaning?” / Pi}’- \ / Witness; “No.! After the"/whole thing was legalised, .Swindell. got or'licenses from • its. Therefore ' he" “double crowed” his friends and pals.” The Commissioner: “I must 'say I don’t know anything in the English language so (expressive as “double crossed” or anything that’, correspond' with it.’l ■" Y ''Y Tin? hearing I ‘fiifitg adjourned.