MALING CASE ENDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 420, 31 July 1928, Page 9

MALING CASE ENDED

DECISION GIVEN TO-DAY SYDNEY CORRUPTION CHARGE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) SYDNEY, Monday. The hearing was concluded to-day of the case in which Silas Young Maling was charged with corruptly receiving £10,600 in connection with the powerhouse contract between Babcock and Wilcox, of London, and the late Sydney City Council. The magistrate announced that he would deliver his decision to-morrow, and would then take the case against Arthur Arnot, manager for Babcock and Wilcox in Australia. William Holdsworth, a former alderman, denied a statement made by Arnot, that witness had demanded £I,OOO. tie said it was a deliberate lie. He had never on occasion asked Arnot for money. Dr. H. V. Evatt, counsel for Maling, submitted that there was no evidence that Arnot’s company \yas the source of the alleged payment. There was no evidence that it was a reward or that it was for recommending the acceptance of a tender. He submitted that the court had no jurisdiction to deal with the case. The New South Wales Act, said counsel, did not apply to the receipt by a person in New South Wales of money forwarded from abroad by a foreign company. He did not suppose there was an Act in the State similar to the Corrupt Practices Act under which an informer was allowed to go scot free, and if Arnot’s evidence were accepted in full Arnot could not walk out of the court scot free.