HEATED REFERENCES MADE AGAINST FORMER PREMIERS.
“ONE OF BIGGEST SCANDALS ON RECKED.”
SENSATIONAL AIIHIATTONS IN PARLIAMENT.
(iieueived y. 40 a.m.) hlclbjbANJi, This Day. Healed references were/- made in the Assembly to affairs oi the mt. Isa Proprietory Silverlead Limited. Mr Helso, M.L.A. said he considered the facts disclosed were one of the biggest scandals on record-
The debate arose on the secern reading of a Bill to ratity an agreement giving the Mining Trust Limit ed prospecting rights over a hundrec. thousand acres on the Burketowi mineral field. Sensational allegation« -.•v , e br Mr Kelso involed the ex-Labour Pre-
aiiei's Theodore and McCormack. Ho declared that the shareholders of Mt. Isa made a profit of £IOO,OOO at the expense of the public. The records show that Messrs Theodore and McCormack, among others, were shareholders. —Australian Press Assn.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 5 October 1929, Page 7
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