BRIBERY CHARGES.

Wairarapa Age, 8 October 1926, Page 5

BRIBERY CHARGES.

IN NEW SOUTH WALES. FARLEY’S ALLEGATIONS. (Received Thursday, 11.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 7. Giving evidence before the Select Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the alleged bribery charges Mr. Farley extended the charges to the Citp Municipal Council. He said that in May he approached a Labour aiderman on the council and asked him for a certain position vacant in the council. He was told that this would be possible if he paid £lOO. After that he saw another aiderman, and told him what had occurred. The latter asked him if possible to make an offer to the Labour aiderman. He replied “Yes,” and accompanied him to the Civic Reform Party’s office, where he was tfcLT he would receive £lO weekly to secure a conviction against a member of the City Council, and one member of the party said he would pay him £3600 out of his own pocket if he would go on with the work of securing a conviction. The witness admitted that he received a certain amount for expenses. He added that the suggestion to bribe members of Parliament came from the same source, and he was taken to the Nationalist headquarters, where, Ke alleged the plot was mooted. Farley then made sweeping allegations of corruption on the railway construction works. Other witness flatly contradicted the statements, one characterising Farley as a mental derelict.—(P.A.).