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LABOR MAYOR’S AVOWAL

WILL GOVERfi ON LABOR PRINCIPLES BUTCHERS' THREAT TO BOYCOTT ABATTOIR [Special to the ‘Stab.’] CHRISTCHURCH, February 4. Declaring that he was keen for work and full of fight, the mayor (the Rev, J. K. Archer), who has returned from what he described as his best holiday for many years, expressed the determination of the Labor City Council to govern the city according to Labor principles. t “ Since reaching home, said the Mayor, “ 1 have read with very great surprise a statement in the newspapers concerning the alleged attitude of the Christchurch butchers towards the municipal market. I cannot possibly believe that they would do anything so stupid as to withdraw their slaughtering from the. public abattoir because of the opening of a butcher’s shop in the market. It may, however, bo useful to state definitely and without any qualification that if they do this it will not, in my opinion, make the slightest difference to the attitude of the present council towards the municipal market. As far as I can see, the market already is an established success, and is going to grow and be developed. There is only one thing that would lend to its abandonment, and that is the adverse judgment of the Christchurch public generally. But, so far as I can discover, that judgment is in the main favorable. In any case, the position is that, at the last municipal elections, the people placed a Labor council in office, and while it remains in office it is going to govern the city according to Labor principles. Not for a single moment is it going to be turned aside from its course by the threats of any interested groups, whether they be fruiterers, butchers, or anybody else. If the butchers do take the action which is suggested, the council will deal with their conduct when it arises, though, of course, T am not now in a position to say what will be its lino of action. The primary aim of the council will be to maintain a satisfactory meat supply for the city, and the citizens can rest assured that that will be done.”

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Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 2

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LABOR MAYOR’S AVOWAL Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 2

LABOR MAYOR’S AVOWAL Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 2

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