SYDNEY CIVIC SCANDAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17465, 27 July 1928, Page 7

SYDNEY CIVIC SCANDAL.

MALING CHARGES. CASE FOR DEFENCE OPENED. CONTENTIONS BY COUNSEL. (By Telegraph -rress Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) SYDNEY, July 26. The hearing was continued to-day of the case in which Silas Young Mating is charged with corruptly receiving £10,600 in connection witli the powerhouse contract between Babcock and Wilcox, of London, and the late Sydney City Council. The case for the prosecution was concluded. Dr. 11. V. Evatt, counsel for Maling, then submitted that there was no case to answer on legal grounds, as it was clear that the whole of tiie transaction was a portion of trade and commerce with another country. If Arnot’s evidence were accepted it must be clear that Arnot and Dialing would he guilty of an offence, not under tiie New South Wales Act, hut under Hie Federal Secret Commissions Art, under which offences were punishable only after conviction by a jury. The construction of the Slate Act was such that an offence under it must of nceossily he confined to a transaction within tiie State. , , After argument, the Magistrate held that he had jurisdiction, and there was a case to answer.

Gwvnn Boyd, of lhc city electricity department, was the first witness for the defence. He said he had examined the tenders for the Bunnerong power station contract, and he had no doubt that the tender of Babcock and Wilcox was the best. Maling at no time endeavoured to influence his conclusion.

The case was again adjourned