MR HUGHES INDIGNANT.
THE CIFTS TO BENDIGO. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cabla Association. (Received April 20, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 20. Mr Hughes is indignant at the report that he proposed donating £15,000 to Bendigo. The statement emanated from the Mayor of Bendigo. 110 received an unsigned communication, purporting to come from Mr Uughegs, and convened a meeting to decide the allocation of the money. Mr Hughes stated that the matter had been referred to the police. He knew noticing about it. Evidently it had been the j work of some person for personal or ■ political reasons. If the statement j were true it would be one of the most 1 shameful attempts to bribe n oonstitu- j oncy in tho Australia. (A previous me* .#»(#* stated that Mr Hughes, as n m.«nfc 9jt* appreciation of j tho loyal support *oc frm him by the { constituency of A-»rr7*go, had decided. } on the eve of his departure for Eng- j land, to give £IS,OCX) of the £25.000 i recently presented him to the Bendigo j miners’ Sick fund, the Bendigo School i of Mines, and farming interests, each I to receive £*5000.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16405, 20 April 1921, Page 7
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193MR HUGHES INDIGNANT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16405, 20 April 1921, Page 7
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