TRUST MONEYS

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 5

TRUST MONEYS

SYDNEY CIVIC OFFICIAL POLICE a'iaKJNG- (INQUIRIES DETECTIVE COALING TO NEW ZEALAND (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Sydney, April 26. The Civic Commissioners who are holding an investigation into the purchase of electrical apparatus during the part live years, have made a discovery of trust moneys-, an explanation of which is desired from Silas V. Alaiing, deputy-general manager of the City Council’s E!eo .tricity Department, who recently secured a, medical eenifleato on the ground of illness, prior to taking long leave, and is now believed to lie in Auckland. A police detective lu*> gone to New Zealand to interview Abilin concerning the matter the ownership of large sums of trust moneys remitted from ‘Britain to Sydney. The pen-on who now holds the money informed the Taxation. Department that he is holding the money on behalf of Alaiing, .there answer to this assertion is so essentia! that- it- >s regarded np <-e----ressarv that Alaiing should return to Sydney. A SUM OF £IO,OOO The police estimate the amount of trust money held on behalf of Alaiing the £IO,OOO. The transactions -,il which Ala-ling is involved 'allegedly occurred while- AlfiJing was acting-manager of the .Electricity Department, during the torrner Labour civic administration.