"GRAFT" IN NEW YORK.
LIQUOR TRADE AND POLICE. £600,000 A YEAR FORMERLY PAID. By ' Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright New York, September 11. In his evidence before the Police Investigation Committee, Mr. W. J. Gaynor (Mayor of New York) admitted that " graft", payments had been paid to the police by>'the liquor interests to the extent of 3,000,000 dollars (£600,000) a year. Recently, however, this had been' entirely suppressed. While the force, said the Mayor, was certain to contain a proportion of incompetent and untrustworthy men, the general level of efficiency was higher than ever before. Mr. Gaynor admitted that burglary and insurance rates ' in New York had jumped 35 per cent., recently. ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15097, 13 September 1912, Page 7
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109"GRAFT" IN NEW YORK. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15097, 13 September 1912, Page 7
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