PETROL MONOPOLY SCANDAL
SYDNEY, June 1. As an outcome of the evidence before the commission, H. A., Morgan has been committed for trial on three charges of wickedly soliciting and inciting F. S. Black, the local manager of the British. Imperial Oil Company, and E. E. Wagstaff, general manager of the company, to cheat and defraud the King of divers large sums of money. Evidence similar to that given before the commission was tendered. Mr Griffith, Minister of Education, gave evidence that ho never authorised Morgan to make proposals for brokerage or commission, but merely authorised him to collect facts and place them before the proper authorities. Bail in £2OO was allowed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3247, 7 June 1916, Page 24
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112PETROL MONOPOLY SCANDAL Otago Witness, Issue 3247, 7 June 1916, Page 24
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