ACCUSED IN BOX
TIMBER LEASE CASE MINISTER IMPLICATED flO a.m ) SYDNEY. May 14. Jo’;n Smith Garden stated in the Darlinghurst quarter sessions yesterday that the Minister of External Territories Mr. E. ,1. Ward, was a member of the syndicate wh'ch purported to sell a New Guinea timber lease to a Brisbane firm. Garden added that the dummy for Ward was his son, Harcomt Garden, and that Ward was to get 20 ner cent, of the amount between £75.000 and £IOO.OOO which the firm was prepared to nay for the concession. Garden had pleaded not guilty to two charges of forging and one of falsifying documents. He entered the witness box to deny the charge that he forged the signature of H. G. Forshaw, the lodging manager of the firm concerned and falsified the third page of a letter When the case re-opened yesterday Ward was among the spectators in the crowded g^Pe’-ms.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22637, 14 May 1948, Page 5
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