CHARGE AGAINST AUDITOR

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 9

CHARGE AGAINST AUDITOR

INQUIRY IN SOUTH AFRICA.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, May'2s.

A bitter two days' debate in the Assembly arose out of the auditorgenera l's action in surcharging the Minister of Posts with £231 for the ttso of a motor for his private purposes, which payment tho Prime Minister, Uneral ITertzog, subsequently condoned.

General Smuts, Leader of the Opposition, to-day regarded an allegation against the auditor as of the gravest, tin (I demanded a judicial inquiry.

The Prime Minister offered to set up iv committee of Parliament to inquire, und the Opposition accepted. i