QUEENSLAND SCANDAL
COMMISSION TO INQUIRE ABOUT LEASES LABOUR CHIEFS INVOLVED BRISBANE, Thursday. Considerable discussion has taken place in the Queensland Legislative Assembly about the actions of prominent people interested in the Mungana oil leases and the Mount ISa silver and lead field. It has been alleged that pressure was brought to hear upon the former Labour Ministry to build a railway to Mount Isa and to purchase the Mungana leases for £40,000, in consideration of gifts of shares. The Minister of Railways, Mr. G. Morgan, stated in the Assembly that Mr. Randolph Bedford, Labour member for Warrego, had, “out of the goodness of his heart,” given shares to certain friends, including Mr. E. G. Theodore, former Premier of the State, now deputy-Leader of the Federal Labour Party, to Mr. William McCormack, also a former Premier of Queensland, and to Mr. A. J. Jones, ex-Ministev of Mines. It is further alleged that the gift of shares was worth thousands of pounds.
The Premier, Mr. A. E. Moore, has agreed to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate the scandals, but the inquiry will not. be commenced until Mr. McCormack returns from England.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 791, 11 October 1929, Page 9
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190QUEENSLAND SCANDAL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 791, 11 October 1929, Page 9
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