N.S.W. BRIBERY

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 October 1926, Page 5

N.S.W. BRIBERY

MR. LANG’S EVIDENCE.

SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS.

(By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and Udbie Asfiociauon., I

SYbNEY, hbioUt &2. • Pdemffir Laiig, giving before the Bribery Select Committee, caused a sensation when he said that the Committee was not properly extending the scope of the inquiry, in that it should have included events connected with the \ Legislative Council, as well as the Assembly. This view was strongly opposed by Doctor Evatt, Chairman, who stated that the Committee was carrying out the terms of the resolution laid down by the Assembly; Mr Lang further Stated lie was of the opinion that the article in the Labour Daily newspaper was used as the stalking hprse fbr ail ilttiffik on him, and he did not put the serious construction on it some people did; Again referring to the Couhcil, he said he certainly thought that there should be some inquiry As to how Labour members of the Council nad betrayed the Party by dishonoured words, and stopped the progress of the Party in its most vital aspects in connection with the abolition of the Council.

Mr Lang then stated ho had been credibly informed by a member ol ,he Nationalist Council that he was

j 'iig to get four members of the Labour Party to cross the floor of the House, and vote with the Nationalists, or stay away when the vote was taken. This member of the Nationalist Party was a high Government official, and in fairness to him, Mr Lang would not divulge his name, which the Committee did not press for.