Nightclub Man In Santo

SYDNEY’S Royal Commission of inquiry into liquor distribution has caused the biggest scurry in Spivdom that Australia ever has known. The Racket has been going on for years and the black marketeers have made huge fortunes.

Some of the lads more or less concerned have sought refuge in dis tant places. One, Abraham Saffron, a nightclub Czar who was grilled in Julge Maxwell's witness-box early in the piece, was reported at the end of March to be “somewhere in the Pacific Islands on business—and not on a frivolous excursion,” his counsel was careful to add.

In consequence of later develop ments, the Court made tender en quiries after Mr. Saffron; but was informed that Mr. Saffron was in Santo Island, in the New Hebrides, and would not be back until about the end of May.

What the famous Mr. Saffron, ex pert director of nightclubs and what not, can be doing in Santo is any body s guess—but we refuse to guess.

Inspector W. M. G. Q. Bose and Inspector G. R. Shaw both resigned from the Police Department, Fiji, recently.