ALLEGED CORRUPTION.
THE M A LING CASE. HEARING 01'! EVIDENCE CONTINUED. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 24. Tlie hearing of the Maling case was continued to-day. ' Continuing his evidence A. J Arnott, manager for Babcock and Wilcox, said he told- Mating the latter was running a great risk when he said lie would suggest a suitable person through whom the money could be sent from England. Maling 'had laughed and replied: “There is no risk.” Witness said the£63o added to the £IO,OOO was to cover expenses. wrote to his firm’s principal in England and the money came later. Arnott said the money came out or the firm’s pockets and was not added to the contract price. Witness said that when he told the Royal Conimission he had on the previous occasion to give £250 to an alderman he did not regard it as graft, but merely as a present. The hearing was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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