A "FRAME-UP"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 247, 9 June 1932, Page 5

A "FRAME-UP"

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POLICE REPORT REGARDING : ALLEGED ASSAULT ON MR. G ARDEN STATEMENT BY MR. STEVENS

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SYDNEY, Wednesday. The State Premier, Mr. B. S. B. Stevens, has released the police report on the recent alleged assault on Aldermah Garden by members of the New Guard. According to the police, one of the persons who is alleged to have taken part in the assault was subsequently found sitting in Mr. Garden's office waiting to be arrested. The Premier was also advised that copies of certain police reports, regarding the New Guard had apparently been stolen. Mr. Stevens said: "Ample evidence has been placed before me to confirm Mr. Weaver's allegations in connection with the New Guard and the Garden episode as outlinel by him in Parliament." There was uproar in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on May 11, when Mr. R. Weaver, Deputy Leader of the Opposition, moved for a Royal Commission "to inquire into the actions of certain members of the Cabinet in entering into a conspiracy with a man named Captain Warneford, lately a member of the New Guard, to -break the law by tbe recent assault on Mr. J. S. Garden." Mr. Weaver asserted that Captain Warneford, acting under instruetions from the Government, and at a payment of £6 a week, bad organised the Fascist Legion, embracing New' Guardsmen. This, he declared, had culminated in the attack on Mr. Garden. The whole thing was a "frame-up."