Mr. Christie's Speech

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 3

Mr. Christie's Speech

ARCH

LOWE.

Sir, — -Witb. .the fino point oi Mr Christie's exact words I axn not competent to deal, as I was not present when ke spoke in Havelock North. But upon the question of giving a statement of fact, it should be common knowledge that negotiations for purchase of the.coal industry by the British Government (nationalisation) had, some months ago, reached the stago where the authority set up for that purpose had named the price considered to he fair and just, after long negotiations between the Govex'nment and the coal owners . had iailed to arrive at agreement upon this point. It is interesting to note here that the price named by the commission was many millions of pounds less than that offered by the Government. Whether or not the actual purchase has taken place we shall apparently, have jbo await the arrival of British newspapers to know, as none of the above facts have appeared in the Her-ald-Tribune as ordinary news so far as my reading has learned. May I, Sirj congratulate you, however upon the publication of tbe fact that the whole of the veterinary service of Britain is now nationalised. That you found an inch or two oi space to publih that fact recently in face of the tromendous demands oi sport and condemixation of every act, oinission, or intention of our present Government is hopeful and noteworthy. — .Vnnra o+f»

Hastings, August 26, 1937. ' , i While thanking us for having "found an inch or two of spaco" concfirning the British veterinary service Mr Lowe might have mentioned the six columns we found for Mr Nash's account of his mission, also the few columns every week that are taken up with statements of various kinds by diiferent Ministers of the Crown. Yesterday we puhlished a cable message coveringjthe report of the council of the British ' Trades Union Congress in condemna- . tion of unqfficial strikes. The day' before. we:* paid telegraphic charges fox, and published, a message reeording the Under-Secretary of Housing's comxnent on the Orakei strlRe which he said "_wa's regrettable." Mr Lowe can read his Herald-Tribune with every assur-' ance that as far as is pbysically possible he will get all the news. — Editor. 1