LABOUR M.S.P.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1566, 20 June 1916, Page 2

LABOUR M.S.P.

REFUSED RIGHT TO HOLD SUNDAY MEETING. Christ church, Last Night. Ai a minting .if the Gity Council to-night n letter was receivc.l from Mr I’. H. Cooke, who forwarded a So.dali-t resolution of protest ag.iiiisi the a.-tioii of the Mayor in re-fu-iug permission to Messrs McCoiuh-, Webb. Hiiidiuarsh. and Payne M s.P.. to address a meeting in the city on Sunday. Councillor Otley moved that the let ter lie laid on the table. The Mayor said that the meeting was purely a political one in which the speakers wished to explain their position. He did not approve of giving permission to gentlemen to take up a collection when those gentlemen were getting ,CSOO a year each. There was ample time to hold political meetings on six days in the. week without utilising Sunday. Many people in the Dominion strongly disapproved of such meetings on the Sakhalin Another reason for his refusing to grant, permission for the meeting was that the Military Service Dill had passed the Lower House, and there could ho no good dime in further discussing it, hut possible harm, "I don’t think it is my duty to help gentlemen who ought to go to the from and won’t, hut who spend their time in tiding in a manner whieh is liable to dissuade other eligible men from enlisting,” coneluded his Worship. Mr Otley’s motion was earned.