BRIBERY TRIAL
SYDNEY ALLEGATIONS AP.NOTT GIVES EVIDENCE 'Flee. Tel. Copy right—■ United Frees Assn » SYDNEY, July IM. The Muling ease was continued today. Arnoll resumed his evidence and said lie told Mnlwig that ihe 'latter was running' a great risk when lie sa.id lie would suggest a suitable person through whom the money could he sent from England. Muling laughed and replied; “There is no risk.” Witness said the .£OOO added to the £IO,OOO was to cover expenses. Ili> wrote to tils firm’s principal in England and the money came later.
Arnett, continuing his evidence, said tlie money came out ol‘ the firm’s pocket. It was not added to the contract price. Witness said when he told the Royal Com mission lie had on a previous occasion to give £250 to an alderman, lie did not regard it as “graft,” hut merely as a present. The proceedings were adjourned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 5
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