"THAT IS THEIR FUNERAL"

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1059, 23 February 1911, Page 4

"THAT IS THEIR FUNERAL"

OPEN-AIR MEETINGS' IN CHRIST- : CHURCH. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) dhristchurch, February 22. , The regulating of open-air meetings in Cathedral Square was again before the 'City Council on Monday evening, when a deputation .from the Socialist party waited on tho council'to protest against its decision in fixing the north-west' corner of Cathedral Square as the site on which the Socialist party, should bo permitted to address wettings. The spokesman said that the only protest tho party had to make was.that it had been relegated to a position it did not a si; for, while other bodies had been allowed to use the moro central site. - If it was dangerous to traffic to allow the Socialists to address meetings near tho centre of tho Square, it was dangerous .to allow, any other body to hold meetings there. In reply to a councillor, the Mayor said that the council at a previous meeting had restricted several bodies, including tho Socialist body, to speaking in the north-west corner of the Square, while permission had been given to. the Salvation Army to hold meetings anywhere in the Square.' - Councillor Thacker moved that all meetings should be held in the northwest corner of the Square.

Councillor Williams asked what would happen if several bodies wished to hold meetings in the samo corner at tho same time, but several councillors echoed "that is their funeral," while Councillor Forrester remarked that he would back the bic drum. ' The motion was carried. /