LIQUOR SCANDAL STIRS OTTAWA.
EX-MINISTER HELPED HIMSELF TO STORES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. “ Sydney Sun ” Cable. (Received April 29, 11 a.m.) OTTAWA, April 28. Liquor disclosure sensations have moved from Washington to Ottawa. Inspector Duncan, a high official of the Canadian Mounted Police, swore that Jacques Bureau, a former Federal Minister of Customs, was furnished with large quantities of liquor free from Government stores in the province of Quebec, with the connivance of officials of his own department who handled the shipments on Bureau's behalf*. It was argued before the Commissioner that these shipments were merely taken from seized samples.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17833, 29 April 1926, Page 8
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