GRAFT IN SYDNEY
REGULAR MONTHLY PAYMENTS ALLEGED. PROMINENT WITNESS DIVORCED. SUIT NOT. DEFENDED. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh t. (Received Monday, 10.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 13. The Civic Contracts Inquiry .was resumed. Evidence was called in support of allegations by Byrnes, Ltd., that regular monthly payments were made to an officer or officers of the City Council for six or eight years from 1914. The hearing was adjourned. Arthur Herbert Albert, one of the prominent witnesses in the recent graft cases, did not defend his wife’s suit for divorce, which was granted to-day, on the ground of misconduct with Martha Gordon, another graft case witness and Albert’s secretary.—'(Australian Progs Association.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 August 1928, Page 5
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111GRAFT IN SYDNEY Wairarapa Age, 14 August 1928, Page 5
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