GRAFT ALLEGATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 21138, 25 June 1932, Page 13

GRAFT ALLEGATIONS

THE GOODE INQUIRY FURTHER EVIDENCE HEARD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 24. The inquiry into charges of misconduct against Charles Joachim Goode, Chief Transport Commissioner, while an officer in the Railway Department, was continued to-day. The principal witness was Harold Waldron, director of the British Express Transport Company, who gave evidence that Goode became an “ honorary director ” of his company in 1927, and for a considerable period received regular payments of £5 ss, and later £5 per week from the company. "’hose payments were originally shown as “ publicity,” and when the auditor demurred they were changed to payments to a man who was not an employee of the company. Dr Wall, a member of the Legislative Council, was also interested in the company. Goode assured Waldron that he could make the company a great success, as he could induce several merchants to give the company haulage trade, quite apart from business coming from the railways. Goode added that he could keep fifty lorries going on railway and other work. The company f rthwith ordered six lorries. The hearing was adjourned.