EMPIRE DAY.
DEMONSTRATION AT DUNEDIN [by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. May 20. At a patriotic demonstration in connection with Empire Day, Sir Joseph Ward said: We should as a community insist on the Home authorities not treating us as children as they had done more than' once in the past, by not allowing to be made public reports by capable men as to the best means of preserving the nations to which we belong. Secret agreements were more responsible for trouble than if they had r,l| laid their cards on the table, and let each other know what they wore doing. Mr Mu lire said there was a feeling no doubt put forward for political purposes, that if the Labour Party got into power it- would make for disintegration of the British Empire, lie gave that :in emphatic denial with responsibility n member of Parlament, and a member of the Labour Party. Mr George Thomson (Communist) endeavoured to move an amendment hut got no hearing. fn the lull of the demonstration against him. Mr Thomson said that Mr M iiuro would regret lie appeared on the platform at this meeting.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1923, Page 3
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191EMPIRE DAY. Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1923, Page 3
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