COCKATOO ISLAND

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 7 May 1921, Page 5

COCKATOO ISLAND

FUKPOTR iREVELATIONS., j

CABLCB—*EESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBI4SET SYDNEY, May 6. At the Cockatoo Island inquiry «n oificer of the naval works department gave eyideaace itlrat extensive timber' > frauds were carired out o!n .the island. He quoted as an example one case an ■which men sent to requisition 900 feat -of timber from the dockyard store tocSk .5000 feet. Witness gave further evidence that a man who had $>een couxerned in a big.. African flour conspiracy, devolving £26,000, sifter serving a sen--tence of nine months, secured a responsible position; act the island j where lis duty was to pass accounts