ALLEGED BRIBERY

Evening Star, Issue 19375, 8 October 1926, Page 4

ALLEGED BRIBERY

HEW SOUTH WALES CASE

CITY COUNCIL INVOLVED,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

SYDNEY, October 7. Giving evidence before the Select Parliamentary Committee, which is inquiring into the alleged bribery charges, Mr Farley extended the charges to tho City Municipal Council. He said that in May ho approached a Labor alderman on the council and asked him for a certain position that was vacant. Ho was told that this would be possible if ho paid £IOO. After that he saw another alderman and told him what had occurred. Tho latter asked him if it was possible to make an offer to tho Labor alderman. He replied “ Yes,” and accompanied him to tho Civic Reform Party’s office, whore he was told he would receive £lO a week and his expenses to secure a conviction against the member of the City Council. One member of the party said he would pay him £2,500 out of his own pocket if ho would go on with the work of securing a conviction. Tho witness admitted that he received a certain amount for his expenses. He added that the suggestion to bribe members of Parliament came from the same source, and he was taken to the Nationalist headquarters, where he alleged a plot was mooted. Mr Farley then made sweeping allegations of corruption on the railway construction works. Other witnesses flatly contradicted the statements, one characterising Mr Farley as a mental derelict.