DOUBLE-CROSSED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 5

DOUBLE-CROSSED

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WITNESS' ALLEGATIONS i

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Rec. July 27, 9.25 p.m. SYDNEY, Wednesday. The Commission inquiring into the granting of licences for mechanical hare i*acing was continued to-day. Frederick Swindell was further examined, but was asked the reason for splitting a £5000 cheque into smaller cheques, Swindell replied: "It was to make five transactions, thus reducing the rate of taxation." Mr. Monaghan: Was it not to defraud the Taxation Commissioner?-^— No. The Royal Commissioner: Was not the whole thing a fraud and fake? — No. The Royal Commissioner: Then it is a matter of your standards?. Swindell: The cheques were made out in other's names. I got no profit. The Commissioner: You got £5000 for scrip for which you paid nothing. Swindell: Yes, but it was only small profit. The Commissioner: That is a matter for the Taxation Commissioner. Swindell denied portion of Felix Goode's evidence in which he stated that if certain companies were formed, £7500 should he paid for them to get a permit to hold coursing. Michael Gleeson, a director of the Australian Coursing Club, explaining dealings with Swindell, and tlie anxiety of various clubs to get licences when mechanical coursing was restored, deelared that Swindell had, he believed, "double-crossed us." The Commissioner: That word double-cross, apparently means that both parties were in a crooked business and one went crooked on the other? — No. After the whole thing was legalxsed, Swixidell got our licences froxn us, and therefore, he double-ci'ossed-his friends. The Commissioner : I must say that I do not know anything in the English language so expressive as doublecross. . The hearing was adjourned.