OFFICIALS SUSPENDED
SYDNEY POST OFFICE CONTRACT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright CANBERRA. August 2. It was announced last night that the Commonwealth Director-General of Works, Mr M. W. Mehaffey, and the Commonwealth Director of Works in New South Wales. Mr J. Orwin, have been suspended from duty as a result of charges under the Public Service Act arising out of the report of the Royal Commission on the contract for remodelling of the Sydney Post Office. Their cases will be dealt with by a departmental committee. The Royal Commission found that flic Commonwealth Director-General of Works failed in his duty in not giving proper instructions that the contract was not to be signed, but that ’hero was no suspicion of bribery or dishonesty of any sort among Commonwealth Ministers or departmental officers in the acceptance of the tender. II also found that the instructions issued bv Cabinet that the contract was not to be signed did not reach the Director of Works in Sydney, Mr Orwin, till after he had signed the contract.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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172OFFICIALS SUSPENDED Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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