QUEBEC SCANDAL
GOVERNMENT FUNDS
INTEREST WITHHELD PREMIER'S RESIGNATION BROTHER IMPLICATED By Telegraph—.Press Association—Copyright (Received June 12, 5.5 p.m.) QUEBEC, June 11 As a sequel to the inquiry into Government accounts, Mr. L. A. Taschereau, who has been Liberal Premier of Quebec for 15 years, resigned to-day. He named the Minister of Public Works, Mr. -T. Adelard Godbout, as his successor. The Legislature was dissolved and the general election was fixed for August 15. Tlio inquiry revealed that Mr. Taschereau's brother, Antoine, accountant for the Government, deposited Government funds with his bank manager's soil, who drew 3 per cent interest on the money but returned the Government only 1} per cent.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Charles Lanctot, K.C. resigned when the commission of inquiry heard hints that ho was too friendly with men convicted as swindlers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 14
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