AN EXPLODED MYTH

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 6

AN EXPLODED MYTH

TAHIATUA AND ME ftED f'EDS. A representatisG mooting ©I Pahinhw cifeeas, nnmbci'iii.g about two Juifidrecl, iv«s held in tho' Borough Council Cha«* bore last evening, after tiie result of tho niayorul efec('to!i had besn itiinoTiiiced, ttt eoiisi<ier ,tbo leiian roceatli takan in reference to tho sentewee passed upon Henry Holland for seditiofn It will bo roiiteßibercd that ou April 21 a ntcctijig cettvcncd.at Faliintua by Mr, K. iluntcr, ait erganiecr of the Sceial Dotjiocifiti.o Party, passed' a resolijtion qilliiig upon the Government to iiuniedktely reli?ase Holland. On the following day a;no-thcr Jnecting was called at which : ihc Wlofl'tng inotk», moved by My. Smtii'. Amd seconded hy SJr. Tosswiil, was-carried vniaminossly; "That, this meeting, wiiish is reprcseutative of the peopfc <if Palii-rtMa, tlioilgli h-tirricdly called, desires io recerd that the ttiot-kii of syinpathy with HoilaiKl, .pnsed at Mr. Binita's inoetiiig, was supported by very fewpoo.ple. Further, that it is the opinica of this meeting that nhttty pei - vmt. -of tho local people consider that Hollatid *a.s very leiiiently dealt with; also that 31r, EdvraKl Baifeko, president of the paluntua Pfo.grpssivo Assosiation, had nothing to do with the Motion carried, and ho has no sj'fiiwAthy with iho snine.'l Last evening's meeting ■oiitj-iyisiaxtvc-•xllj- reafHriircd the above , resohitioiij and Sβ finally disposed of tho allegation that the cHteens of Paliiatw stc i\i ssiwpa-fty wit.k tlio demand for Holland's'release.