BOOED AND COUNTED OUT.
GREYMOUTH, July 25. ' A hostile reception was aceorded anti-conseription spealcers at a meeting attended by about 50 persons at llumara last evening. The speakers, lMr. ' J. Reedy, Kumara president of the j Westland Timber Workers' (Jnion, and. Mr. H. R. Miteheil, Greymouth, a member of the West Coast Anti-consexiption League and also of the Communist Party, were booed and counted out at many stages of the evening while tihe singing of patriotic songs frequentiy drowned the spealcers' voices. ThougU. a motion supporting an , anti-conserip- : tion vote was moved and seeonded, it was not put to the meeting. ' • "The meeting did not get out of eon-. trol altogether but it was very nearthat," stated the Mayor of Kumara/ Mr. W. H. G. Stewart, who presidod. _ : ■' ■" ^ 1 - 1 - ;
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1949, Page 8
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