LAUD SCANDAL
FAT COMMISSION OVER MYALL ESTATE.
By Electric Telegraph—Per -Press [Association—Copyright. Received 11.56 p.m., May 16. Sydney, May 16. At the lands enquiry it wa3 disclosed that Willis received £4,236 commission from the vendor in connection with the sale of Myall Creek estate to the Government. Of this Willis declared he gave £I6OO to a gentleman about town who did nothing for it, but was supposed to have a lot of influential friends. The Minister for Lands deposed that he did not know Willis was connected with the transaction until after the purchase.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1456, 17 May 1905, Page 2
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94LAUD SCANDAL Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1456, 17 May 1905, Page 2
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