ALLEGED BRIBERY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1921, Page 5

ALLEGED BRIBERY.

THE SYDNEY SENSATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 16, 10.35 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 16. During the hearing of the Bramston case a letter was submitted outlining the commission entrusted to Gill by Alfred Burnett, public and consulting investigator, of Melbourne, wherein Gill was retained for the first week at a salary of £25, and for subsequent weeks at £lO ss, in addition to first-class travelling and hotel expenses. The letter instructed Gill to ascertain if the allegations that, certain members of the council resorted to obtaining money by dishonest methods, such as demanding money from tenderers in connection with the supply of material for municipal works, were true, and was warned against suggesting to pay for the goodwill of any member of the council, as the suggestion, if made, must come from them. Burnett also wrote that he was employed by W. McElhone, solicitor, of Sydney, from whom Gill would receive further instructions.

In connection with the Bramston case, counsel for the prosecution stated at a certain stage of the negotiations for contracts the trap that had been laid was discovered. Bramston withdrew, and the correspondence was dropped like a hot potato.