A Canteen Case

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 171, 19 January 1914, Page 5

A Canteen Case

I ORGANISED BRIBERY.. '$ I —— ■ , i-'*vS' IBy Cable—Press Association—Gondii J Received 18,5.5 p.m. " 1 I London, Janwy itj it I In connection with the eanteft #U I monses, six quartermasters, tWlpi I geantanajors and eight civilians vKSrt I charged that in February, UlW'k^pi " I other occasions thoy eonspiriS. jug i- I money should corruptly be given-'** ifji ] I inducement to favor Liptori's coßtaU&j , I Received 19, 1&50 ajn. j3 London, January JJM " I Mr. Jftiir, in prosecuting,'outUnwrflH caatecn charges. He said that kesis|ij airy existed among different firjni'f|S secure contracts, wherefore • trafttdal £l? to £2O monthly was paW to«§fflß messes where 100 men were oa WJJNg The making of complaints as to rtJfß quality of provisions roted witn : «tl| quartermasters and sergeant-mai^E hence a system of organised ex&pm sistent bribery had been initiated HfWm conductors of Lipton's miliUry-jJllli teens. The chief witness wonld'/M Sawyer, a former employee of UvfMm who had been instructed by MfffSl (formerly head of Lipton's uilitajyjSfflfl partment) in 15)03 to secure the influSaM of non-commissioned officers as cheafflSffl as possible. Tho canteen business gCMM rapidly under Sawyer, who, later .oss was personally entrusted with th«fyajf»& ments, making it plain to the IteMsl of the firm that he desired to eoaSirt! their responsibility ,and that he -vSa prepared to repudiate tho acts of *jfrs subordinate if anything wag revealed!!*** self protection the subordinates • <d?«i tained a written authoritjrSvlien 'Si**! ycr wanted bribes he had 16 go -Hsl Minto, or Causeflcld, the ireneraf man;! a«er. * ™^j Many letters were read detailing Visd ments to quartermasters. Sftwyrt^HH one letter stated I hat QimrtennaitarJ Armstrong clamored for £3O to setfSfc* a contract for the First BatalliotfSy Aldorshot. Sawyer recommended mMS mg £-20. tf 7W inspector of Colchester brMMIIS wroto to the company saying that feun'ij sergeant-majors had made up , thrftf'K -minds to stop at nothing to gct'fttjjtJ contractors unless thev were well paH-retT . The inquiry was adjourned. * 1? "—TIT" - S , .»^ . "St