ALLEGED BRIBERY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 73, 22 June 1928, Page 6

ALLEGED BRIBERY

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

NATIONALISTS INV OLVED

SYDNEY, June 21

‘Evidence tliat cllirihg the 1919 eleciidhs ho has offered money on behalf ■fif the Nationalist Party to vacate 'his seat, was given by Mr Frank Anstey, a member of the House of Representatives, before the Royal Commission inquiring into £he allegation of Mr W. H. Lambert, that he was offered a, bribe of £BOOO by a 'fornfh' supporter of the Labotlr Party to resign hk seat in the Federal ParliaLartbnt , ( tb Mr F,. C. Theodore. Bdyohd stating that the man who m'ade 'him the offer was a well-known Melbourne, business man, Mr Anstey declined to give his name. The o ei wa« made to him to withdraw His nomination for the Ro'urke seat as the Nationalists thought if he did so .they hould haver a good chance of winning it. No amdniit of cash Was : specified if he agreed to the suggestion, but be wa« given to understand that it would he worth his while.