CORRUPTION IN BUSINESS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21034, 9 December 1933, Page 7

CORRUPTION IN BUSINESS

Following hard upon the statement of Mr Justice Owen, retired, concerning bribery and corruption in the remarks of the president o£ th« Traders' Protective Association (Mr W. F. Holloway) complete the suspicion in the public mind that there is more dishonesty than there ought to be, and that the users of goods and services of all kinds are consistent sufferers (wrote the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus" on December 1). Mr Justice Owen was addressing the Institute of Journalists "No. trade or business is exempt," according to his Honour, who speaks with discretion as becomes a judge, and especially one whose father wai a judge before him. Some old members of the legal profession can re» member the late Mr Justice Owen, as Chief Judge of Equity, presiding in * gown of black silk and bullion. "Dis* reputable methods of trading whereby business is stolen from others," was Mr Holloway's description of certain practices. The statements have prompted the telling of many stories, but ther«seems to be doubt whether the scandal can be obliterated.

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