CONTRACT MONEY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 9

CONTRACT MONEY

THE SYDNEY INQUIRY A WOMAN'S EVIDENCE MALINGTS DEALINGS United Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, 29th Muy. Tho Eoyal Commission's/inquiry into civic affairs was continued to-day.' Th reply to a question put by counsel for .Albert, S. Y. Maling said that it was only after his return from New Zealand that ho fixed the amount of money he left with Albert at £1100. Before that, while in New Zealand, he had told Inspector Mackay that Albert had £2600 of the £10,600. In reply to further questions, Maling said that he did not tell Inspector Mackay the real facts in New Zealand," as ho was trying to protect himself pending seeing his solicitor, and ho also had in mind that ho might make public tho facts of the tender transaction. Mrs. Pittock, in reply to Mr; Shand (counsel assisting the Commissioner), said that after her return from New Zealand- she. interviewed ex-Alderman Green and told him that the money transaction between himself and Maling had somehow become known, and that there was trouble about it. Grocn appeared to be greatly alarmed, and said that he would make inquiries and see if he could Gnd out anything.'Green later suggested that tho best thing Maling could do was to deny the whole matter. , ' Mrs, Pittock said that while.in-Wel-lington Maling received a letter from Albert, in which ho said that Maling had used him, and that the writer had been an old fool. Witness then told of tho interview she had had with Arnot in Sydney, when she asked Arnot to,pay the income tax on £10,600, for winch Maling Had received assessment. Arnot said: "Strikes me Maling is in the soup." Witness replied: "Yes, and you aro in the soup too, Arnot." Arnot ( then said: "I wish I had handled the transaction myself. It would have been cheaper. In the first place I gave Maling a substantial sum to handle the transaction,-and now ho has gone and mucked the whole thing up. Why does uot Maling.pay tho money?" Witness replied that Maling was not going to pay the money, and Arnot replied that ho had nothing to fear, as he had handed the matter over to his directors to deal with. , . • In reply to a question by Mr. Shand as to whether attempts had boon made to book passages for herself and Maling to America or England, from New Zealand, witness said that Maling had made inquiries, but could not get berths on board tho Tahiti. . This was six weeks before he left New Zealand.