SYDNEY CIVIC SCANDALS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 3, 27 July 1928, Page 5

SYDNEY CIVIC SCANDALS

MAfcING ON litlAU ALLEGED CORRUPTION. V' SYDNEY, July 26. The case for the prosecution has concluded in the charge of corruption agalnat, Silag Young Mating. Drj. i Evatt, counsel for Maling, then submitted'there wa s no case to answer on legal grounds, as it was, clear that the whole of the transaction was a portion of trade and commerce with another country, as provided under the Commonwealth Constitution-, If Arnpt’s. evidence were accepted "It” would he jclear that Arnot and Maling would be guilty of an offence, not ■' under . the New South, Act but under the Federal 'Secret Commissions Act, under which offences were punishable only after - conviction by jury. The construe- ‘ tion of th e State Aot must of neces-' sity be confined to a transaction within the State. After argument the magistrate held 1 that he had jurisdiction and 'thaf there was a case to answer. p Gwyn Boyd, of the city electi ferity department, Wa s the first witness for, the defence. He gave evi-dence,-that he had examined the tenders for. the. B/uinrong contract and he. had no .doubt that Babcock and 1 Wilcox’s tender was the best. At ho time did Maling endeavour to influence his -conclusion. s The case was at this stage ad-., •:t; journed. . ” ■ . f