WITNESS DISAPPEARS
AUSTRALIAN SALVAGE COMMISSION INQUIRY SYDNEY, May 2. An important witness at the penani . inquiry into the activities of the Salvage Commission is reported to have left Australia and to be now in Palestine. The Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr E. J. Harrison, demanded an immediate investigation of this report. He asked in the Federal Parliament last September for a Royal Commission to inquire into the alleged sale by the commission of clothing as rags, and in February _ Mr Chifley appointed a leading public servant to investigate the allegations. In March Mr Harrison again demanded a Royal Commission, and read a letter from a Svdneyfirm stating that material for which the firm had offered £ll2 per ton had been sold for £2O a ton. Last night Mr Harrison stated that about £7B 000 was made from a contract between the commission and a firm which at the time was not even registered. .
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Evening Star, Issue 25782, 3 May 1946, Page 5
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155WITNESS DISAPPEARS Evening Star, Issue 25782, 3 May 1946, Page 5
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