MONEY BY GRAFT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 87, 22 November 1928, Page 3

MONEY BY GRAFT

SYDNEY CIVIC “SCANDALS.” THE JUDGE’S FINDING i SYDNEY, November 21. Judge Thomson’s report on tiro City Council coal contracts recently the .subject of investigation, Jvas made available tc-day. Jnidge) Thomson found tire • ifwq persons mainly responsible for the introduction of bribery wore W. Johnston, manager for B. Byrnes, Ltd., and R. Woof, former superintendent of tbe City Cbuncii’s powerhouse. They bad betrayed the trust oi their respective employers, said the judge, and had acted dishonestly to** wards some people with whom they had had “’graft” transactions. -Both were implicated by their own sworn statements and admissions, while Sil'is Young Maling, former man age i of tbe electricity department, was implicated by 1 tlie*’ evidence ol Johnis ton and Wocf and bis admissions to the police inspector who interviewed him in New Zealand. Each had obtained considerable sums by means of graft. .jounstoti, however, became ill during the inquiry and eventually died. Judge Thomson declared there wl’-S the gravest suspicion regarding the parts played by the former Lord Mayor Mostyn and ex-alde v man Knglisli, while eNaaVp-rmaVi, Holdswbrth, impressed! Judge Thomson ms an nnrclinWe witness. one unworthy of credence.