REMARKS RESENTED

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1932, Page 3

REMARKS RESENTED

INSULT :, T 0 ■/ COLONISTS • : SVA-TEMENT IN tfHE..HOUSE , i: •. .WELLINGTON, October 22. ‘Resentment at the remarks, of Mr \ JiyA.! Lee .(Lab., ivho. had suggested -tlie (previous evening that y'the -early; New Zealand" cpJ.on.Bts were driven out of the slums of ‘London, was. 'expressed by. Sir R. jA. . .Wright ((Government., - .Wellington Suburbs) and -by Mr \G. R. Sykes (.government, ; Masterton) when speaking On the. Ot- . fiawa agreements in ‘the House last ■evening. •‘l'feol sure Mr Lee must feel sorry, a.botit his rciritirks last evening,” said : Mr. Wright. '’’. .-Mr Lee. NeVer.’cn (your- life. • .Mr Wriglit : He made • a n ettack on ;the early settlerk cf‘&ew'Zealand.,He said they'came from ? the' < slufr«s of Engtand. 'lt is admitted on .'eveVy,- 'hand tliat our, early settlers eame from a magnificent .stock, and I am sorry l.e cast a slur on them. . >. " Mr H. .) Armstrong .(Lab., Christ- • church East);* jlotter men .than you •coin,a from .the. slpms. / Nir Speaker : • Order. I will have to name some hpnour-r.ble riieniler presently. ‘(As. one born in Wellington of NeV .Zealand parentage, as one whose , parents came, from England, I resent the suggstion that our forbears were driven out.>of the slums of London,” de- ’ dared 'Mr Sykes.' “The finest settlers to' land on any shore landed at Wellington a nd ether centres of New Zea--latid-in the ~’forties ?.nd ’fifties. .Jt. was these sturdy -pioneers who made the wilderne«i- .what jt -is -to-day, On behalf ,of those who were not driven out of the slums, , and' who came here voluntarily. I .protest against the • sug-..gest-'bn made by the member for Grey Lynn. .Wet have reason -to hold our bend-'and ran cbim .with pride our British parentage.”