A MAYORAL OUTBURST
ABOUT EMPIRE DAY LABOUR MAYOR STYLES IT "TOMMY ROT" By Telegraph—Press Aesociatlon-Copyrißlit Melbourne, May 13. Tho Labour Borough Council at Port Melbourne discussed a proposal, to cooperate in the Empire Day celebrations. Tho Mayor. (Air. Page) declared that "it was timo all this tommy-rot about Empire Day was wiped out." Ho intended to entertain the children on the anniversary of. tho French Revolution, when the workers rerolted against tyraniiy, and would explain to tho children what that day meant. Tho council carried a resolution that tho citizens would most like to celebrato the day. by tho erection of a school in a certain street to replacc the present pigsty.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2148, 14 May 1914, Page 5
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112A MAYORAL OUTBURST Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2148, 14 May 1914, Page 5
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