“STARVED IMMIGRANT”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3843, 11 September 1928, Page 4

“STARVED IMMIGRANT”

REPLY TO MR. COATES. “HERALD” QUOTES LETTERS. London, September 5. Mr. Coates’s cables in reply to the starved immigrant case prompts the “Daily Herald” editorially to assert that it could fill its columns with extracts of letters from New Zealand, bearing out the statement that hundreds of starving men were walking the roads of JJio Dominion, and proceeds to give several extracts from private letters “which have been sent us in shoals.” Referring to the dire straits of migrants, the paper asks: “Is it conceivable that all these settlers are wrong and Mr. Coates is right?” LABOUR PARTY’S EXPLANATION. WRITTEN WITHOUT AUTHORITY. Te Kuiti, September 7. At a meeting of the Wiaitomo Labour Party, held on Thursday night, the following resolution was adopted : “That this meeting of the Waitomo Labour Party entirely dissociates itself from the statement contained in a Press Association message, alleged to have been sent by its secretary to the London ‘Daily Herald.’ While agreeing that there is much unemployment in New Zealand, it is not correct that many are dying of starvation. It is the opinion of this meeting that the alleged statement must have been nrisconstrueted from a private letter, written by the late secretary to the ‘Herald’ without the sanction or knowledge of the Waitomo branch of the Labour Party of New Zealand.”