RAILWAY INQUIRY
GOODE GUILTY OF FRAUD AND MISCONDUCT. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, | July 27. The Royal Commissioner who inquired into the charges of misconduct against J. C. Goode, Ciiief Transport Comnnissioner, and former Si p-rint m*e-.:t of goods traffic, in' /the New South Wales Railway Department, has /P-'e-sentod his report. He finds Goode of serious misconduct, amounting to fraud upon the 'Railway Commission, ers.
, Three cheques drawn by S. E. Vernon, which went through Goode’s bank account were paid and received ruptly. Referring to transactions between Goode and Davis, who was a railway cartage contractor, the Commissioner found Davis received eighteen hundred pounds more than ha was entitled jto from the Railway Department, ('
[ In relation to certain transv'cti.yv Goode had rendered m--—’ l ’ liable to prosecution under th & Secret Comm.ssions Act.
The Commissioner was unable to find any proof of misconduct in regard to Goode’s dealings with the British Express Carrying 'Coy., or in relation to the purchase of twenty motor lorries for use for railway cartage purposes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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168RAILWAY INQUIRY Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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