GRAFF IN SYDNEY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 November 1928, Page 5

GRAFF IN SYDNEY

COUNCIL COAL CONTRACTS

SCATHING INDICTMENT

BY INVESTIGATING JUDO!

Unit-d Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright

SYDNEY, 21st November

Mr Justice Thomson's report on the City Council coal contracts, recently the subject of investigation, was made available to-day. lie found that the two persons mainly responsible for the introduction of bribery weru W. John stou, manager lor li. Byrnes, Ltd., and R. Woof, former superintendent of the City Council's power house. They had betrayed their I nisi, to their respective -unployers and had also acted dishonestly toward some people with whom they had graft transactions. Both were implicated, by their own sworn statements and admissions, while Silas Muling was implicated by the evidence of Johnston and Wool and admissions to the police inspector who interviewed him in New Zealand. Kach had obtained considerable sums by means of graft. Johnston, however, became ill during the inquiry and eventually died. Mr Justice' Thomson declared thai there was, the gravest suspicion regard iug the parts played by the former Lord Mayor, Mr Mostyn,'and ex-Alder-man English, while ex-Alderman Holdsworth impressed him as -an unreliable witness unworthy of credence.