PALMERSTON.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1305, 7 December 1911, Page 6

PALMERSTON.

MOKAU AND MR, M'NAB. (By Tnletrrapii —Preps Assocfatfon.l Palmerston North, December fi. Mr. M'Nab, addressing a packed and enthusiastic meeting hero to-iiight, referred further to the Mokau case and his challenge to Mr. Massey in that regard. Tie repeated that, in stating that the Order-in-Conncil had not been granted until March, and that he (Mr. M'N'ab) had joined the. company in January (at tho same time suppressing tho fact that the resolution for the issuing of tho Order-in-Conncil hud boon passed in December), Mr. Masscy had been guilty of more than not being frank. Mr. Massey had, in replying to tho letter from the Hawke's Bay shareholders, asked that the men who had signed that letter should say where ho had told a falsehood. ITe would enumerate those (to use Mr. Massoy's own words) falsehoods as follow:— (1) Tho statement that tho 5031 acres were a few months ago the property of tho Dominion; (2) that those lands had been sold by the Government privntelv; (3) that the land had been handed over to the company for ss. lOd. per aero.

"A Bill came dow.n last year called tho Mental Defectives'' Bill.' 1 said Mr. Fisher last evening. "Wo thought, when we.saw that title, that it was something to do with tho Ministry!"

Insurance, in iis commercial aspoct, was first introduced into England by the Lombards early in the lGth century,' For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. G&*