SECRET DISEASE COMMISSION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14699, 2 September 1915, Page 5

SECRET DISEASE COMMISSION.

t BRIBERY OF POLICE ALLEGED.^ i 1 .. , .v?| Press Association.—'Telegraph—Copyright 1 ; SYDNEY, September Iss In giving evidence before the Parlia-’ mentary Select Committee on Secret; Diseaap, Dr. Ralph Warrall alleged that the present Police Act opened avenues! to graft among the police, who we£e| making a lot of money by taking monejij for 'not prosecuting houses of Thero> were : any.’number of these housep; in Sydney, but they,, were run Jlhoy. really, paid ’for a, license by • bribrjl 'iiigythe police. He-w*as ; psiving no evf*| dance in proof of tKis. stfitement but tty' was pretty wbll known. ' DR. WORRAL’S STATEMENT. || HON. MR BLACK’S VIEW. 1 Received September'2, 8.30 ■ 1 SYDNEY; 'September 2,®| Themon, Mr Black, .referring to Dig Worral’s , statement, declined- to bej| .liove that;;there-was any systematic ..bribery among the police, who atoqiw as/, high- In public estimat’on as.any| force-iti the world. Suspicion, ever, wafi not permissible, and hj« would fully Investigate' the matter, • Worral explains that he did npti intend .to impugn' the integrity of the? Sydney police, which .he considered equal; to . any in the world. What h)S:i advocated was revoking that portion! of; the.Polled Act making brothels RM gal, because such provision had tnjfo . effect of, increasing venereal and exposing the ■> police to temptai tions.from which they shoulu De . tented; v ®