TIN HARE ALLEGATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 21054, 17 March 1932, Page 11

TIN HARE ALLEGATIONS

STATEMENT BY MR LANG POLICE TO INVESTIGATE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, March IC. In the Assembly the Premier (Mr J. T. Lang), answering Mr Kilpatrick, said he had read Press reports of Mr Stevens’s tin harp allegations, and he had asked the police to take the matter up and see weather there has been any bribery or corruption, and if so bring the culprit to justice. Mr Ardill '(Nationalist) asked: Will the Premier table the papers 'i Mr Lang: There arc no papers in connection with this muckraking. I have asked the Police Commissioner to see, me, and he has promised to investigate the allegations. POLICE ASK FOll DOCUMENTS. REFUSED BY MR STEVENS. SYDNEY, March 17, (Received March 17, at 10.15 a.m.) Detective-superintendent Mackay interviewed Mr Stevens and asked him for the documents and declarations in the recent mechanical hare exposures. M'r Stevens refused and subsequently made the following statementlf these documents arc handed to the police they will be transmitted to the Ministers themselves, and I have no confidence that the Ministers will, institute proceedings against themselves. I regard the action of the Premier in referring this matter to the police as a clumsv and brazen attempt to evade a judicial inquiry, which alone would have full power of eliciting the truth.