LABOUR MEMBER'S BAD TASTE.
.. ■, ; ; MR." HOLLAND CONFEIiS-WITH ■.INDIAN-LEADERS. Press -Aasociation. 1 By 'Wireless, from the-Mokoia. -Prior -to .the landing .at .Suva, .Sir James Allen requested-the members of. the. Parliamentiiry party -not to' discuss ; the recent strikes with'the 'Hindus. -He Itointed..out. that th'e party were invited . as guests,iahd ought to .refr,ain:fronr.any : action which 'would embarrass their \hosts. Mr. H. ; E. Holland declined ..to . give any undertaking,, and said he intended to make .his .inquiries; The "Fiji.Times".,strongly,commented: : on -the -action of the Labour Party while in Suva, saying: "The action i-f Mt. Hoi.'. land and .some .others in. communicating ' and conferring with the Indian 'leaders ; regarding the .recent trouble will, we. • fear, give encourngement to. the disloyal, . olement. We think some. of'-the methodu . employed by Mr., Holland show very bailtaste." . '. I, Mr. : Holland, when .approached by-the. United' Press Association's i'opresenta-! tive, said ,he -preferred'-to "iwervb Wareply till he.anived in. .New '.Tho .Mokoia wijl probably reach .Auckland on .Friday mohiing. All. aro well. ; A LABOUR .RESOLUTION. . ■„ At' a meeting,of-the Wellington Social Democratic Party held. ;a.t the Trades. Hall 'last. evening, the .following resplu-' tion whb passed :—''That jffiis-brancll ,'of' ■theiSocial Democratic Party congratulates' Mr. H..E--Holland,.M.P..; ,as,rqpresentiug the Labour Party on his-'very, good/taste' : in pressing for. inquiries .aboiit the position .of thp Indian -workers in '-Fiji, who. Irnve been on .strike .for .more humane conditions. We .consider, that had mem- ■ bers.of Parliament visiting.'these' islands. ..failed to get first-hand-knowledge of-.the. situation, the .whole of the . cost ; of the trip would lmve .been,absolutely w:nsti;d, and that the attempt to stop inquiries is only another example,of ; the iniquity of tho present Government in the. mntter of keeping the people of. this country, ihj. Ignorance of-affairs outside New'?<ca- : land." ■ •
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 155, 26 March 1920, Page 7
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281LABOUR MEMBER'S BAD TASTE. Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 155, 26 March 1920, Page 7
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