NARROW ESCAPE

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1932, Page 3

NARROW ESCAPE

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tfAVY’6 TJiiAiVJv C-NGBLLED

SYDAEi, September 7

i have sill ways behoved tint ■ .11 sew Zealand entlre.ly lulled to ay p.eciate fch'3 precarious anu • cv^x .ni.etll’e pf ; ithe political Situation th ,ar de>elope-d three months ago, ju be l ore the Governor decided to d wnMr Lang. Here is a piece of informtion which has .only jvst securest, ij

deity, but which, is .to my mind s.mg j u y illuminating.

"' v ihe Federal ’Conciliation Conimitsk.’ier was hearing appeals a few days a^o.in Sydney ./anddyne-of the witnesses «'as Mr. FauSl, pr.osicknt of the 'Master Bubehei'd v Association. He told the Cuirimiesiohei; . that he had -a contract l, supply 'tfie Australian Navy .with meat ; that in the earl'y paH of last June the Federal Government had intended to send the naval crews? on th ee weeks’ leave 1 ; that this deck'nii was revoked “because of the action of the Lang Government in defy in ; the. operation of 1 the E lfoycoment dV<t ;” that lie?-was callbd upon “at a m. mentis notice-’’ 'to supply ,th© ' sfc'ayy with a large stocld-of me .'t>; and ,-tho.the was' forced to ' work .FisV«Jafl '. i nigjit and *d'av to. providg thy.-'meat •in ' the. •required time. ' l/iSiy-d '. %? %om this it fir’t -titnov liromes certain that whlivj ANTt 1 ydns. . d that the Government would use ’ts ipowers to the Utmost” to enforce its rights againstd-, Lang Government, ’ he was not eirp’dying a mere figure of speech, an ’ ’fh,-he'*i who mpoitfiin that LerigisnV ’’’•■light this country, 'within peri’mrlv 1 ■•£> .di,stance of civil war have spoken ;.”• litoral truth.