BARCLAY'S BLUNDER.
A DEMAND THAT IIE .SHOULD
RESIGN
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. A requisition signed bv 133 electors, being practically till there are in the Ravensbourne district, of the city electorate, has been sent to Mr Barclay, M.H.R., asking him to resign, as his letters in the press applying the term infamous ” to the action of the Im- , penal Government prior to the war. and their subsequent treatment of the Boer women, etc., in the concentration camps, is a reflection on the colony, and our young men in South Africa. The requisitionists consider that Mr Barclay’s attitude is a direct encouragement to the enemy, and as “ infamous on the part of one who holds a public trust, and has taken the oath of fealty to the Empire.”
Thank Heaven, we havo at tho head of affairs in this colony a man who makes his voice heard throughout the length and breadth of tho British Empire, and who has shown himself a true Britisher in tho matter of the South African war. Were it worth wasting words on such a contemptible individual, wo could pity Barclay in his ravings.—Woodvillc Examiner.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 322, 24 January 1902, Page 2
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