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<p>[Page 78]</p><p>of newspaper reports courtesy of the purposefully invited journalists. His popularity in England was secured! One of [McGowen's] ministers was Arthur Griffith, who is also in today's Holman ministry. He used his ministerial knowledge of future railway lines, etc to encourage his secretary to buy land in the relevant areas. Thus, it so happened that when the time came to build a railway line near Sydney and one in the Blue Mountains, the lady owned most of the land.</p><p>Election results, too, seem to be tinkered with. They say that attempts were made to rig the recent referendum on conscription. The government knew that the Tommies at the front would tip the balance and so they searched for a man who had a reputation as being politically neutral but would be otherwise useful. They found him in the person of Mr Anderson, a partner of Sir Allan Taylor, a former lord mayor of Sydney. The good man reportedly served as a volunteer with the Light Horse Brigade, but was not otherwise militarily active. He was made brigadier general</p>