LICENSES AND GRAFT.
ALLEGATIONS IN MELBOURNE. (Received 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE/ this day. Affidavits have been sworn by exmembers of the licensing police, -who were dismissed for taking part in the police strike, alleging that corruption, collusion and intimidation were rife in the licensing branch of the Victorian police force in 1923. A Royal Commission was demanded by them at the time of the strike. They declare that in less than a year eighty charges were made against hotel and restaurant keepers by subordinate police, and were subsequently' withdrawn after influence had been exerted by an outside. body. ■ They also allege that the police received occasional instructions to keep away from certain hotels, where functions were being held without the necessary permit from the Licensing Court.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 94, 21 April 1924, Page 5
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