MONEY FOR INFORMATION
Last ,vrar £14,700 was paid by the British Treasury in rewards to informers who helped tho authorities to detect ta.y and import duty dodgers. The disclosure' is made in the report of tho Select Committee on Public Accounts, which was recently issued. Sir Gilbert Upcott, the Government s Auditor-General, admitted that this was a very big increase 011 the amount ptid in previous years. Some of the money was paid to civil servants and the rest to private citizens who gave information to the Customs or Inland Revenue authorities. Some of tho informers received hundreds of pounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22256, 2 November 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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100MONEY FOR INFORMATION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22256, 2 November 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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