MUNGANA MINES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 199, 24 July 1931, Page 7

MUNGANA MINES.

CASE AT BRISBANE. BRISBANE, July 23. The Mungana case was continued in the Supreme Court to-day, the Federal Treasurer, Mr E. G. Theodore, the ex-Premier of Queensland, Mr William McCormack, also Peter Louis Goddard and Frederick Reid, facing charges preferred by the Crown. For the Crown, Mr A. D. McGill, in the course of his opening address, which has occupied two days, declared that McCormack, while a Minister of the Crown, received a cheque for £ISOO from the State Smelters signed byGoddard as manager, and payable to “F. Reid, or bearer.” That cheque went into McCormack’s bank account on October 1, 1920, and on October 16 he withdrew £750. The Crown suggested that somebody else got it. “The jurors will see that whenever money comes forward a hand steals out of the shadows to take its' share. That hand is the hand of Theodore,” he said.

Evidence would be called, added Mr McGill, to show that Theodore shared every time money was paid. Other evidence would be produced showing that Goddard was definitely corrupted in 1920 with a gift of 1250 shares in Mungana Mines, Limited, other shares in the mines being in the names of McCormack’s two sisters.