CONSTABLE’S APPEAL
UNFAIR TREATMENT ALLEGED Press Association—By Telegraph*—Copyright SYDNEY, May 3. At to-day’s sitting of the Royal Commission, which inquired into illegal betting operations and was later reopened in order to reconsider the case of Constable M. B. Miller, counsel for Miller, Mr J. W. Shand, K.C., laid a charge against Police Commissioner Mackay of unjust and unfair treatment of Miller. Mr Shand claimed that Mackay, “ under a false assumption of fairness,” had attempted to discredit Miller, and had maliciously presented to the Premier the cause of Miller’s absence in the country in *1936, which, /* Mr Shand contended, was genuinely due to ill-health. Mr Shand further submitted that the police commissioner approved of obviously baseless charges and biased reports of seniof police officers relating to Miller’s activities in connection with the crusade against starting price bettors. The inquiry was adjourned to a date to bo fixed.
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Evening Star, Issue 22639, 4 May 1937, Page 9
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146CONSTABLE’S APPEAL Evening Star, Issue 22639, 4 May 1937, Page 9
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