STARTLING DISCLOSURE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 137, 9 May 1930, Page 7

STARTLING DISCLOSURE.

ALLEGATION OF BRIBERY. MR SCULLIN GIVES DETAILS. CANBERRA. May 8. A startling allegation of bribery was disclosed by the Prime Minister, Mr J. H. Sculiin, in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr Sculiin stated that Mr Roland Green, M.P., who was a member of the Public Works Committee, had informed him that every member of that committee, except Mr Green himself, had accepted a bribe from an unnamed man who desired a decision in favour of the A class broadcasting stations in a claim for compensation from the Government following the takingover of those stations. Mr Sculiin gave the House details, and said that the investigation by the Public Works Committee into the the claim of tho broadcasting stations had been temporarily suspended. The chairman of the committee. Mr Coleman, M.P., who had denied having received £SOO .as a bribe, had asked Mr Roland Green whether he could identify a strange man who approached him on the veranda of Parliament House with an offer of £2OO. Mr Green said that he could. That man, according to Mr Green, had said: “Coleman has earned his £500,” and asked him (Mr Green) not to be a darned fool, and why stand in his own light. Mr Green declared that Ire had made no reply. He was simply astounded. Later on Mr Green had brought the matter up in committee, upon which every member denied having been approached. Mr Sculiin announced that the allegation would be investigated without delay.