MILLERTON MATTERS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 67, 21 June 1912, Page 10

MILLERTON MATTERS.

A Picnic—Socialist Deeds—Passive Rcsisters Active.

Hμ- 1<..-ill Socialist I'ari.v I'.mi.-<1 iis m< r:;v In lln , io'ovi<in!i ul' aid-li,; <-d-li , ; i< r (lav lor I'iK' childl'li :i slu.rl (inn , ;;;:,". ii iiKiiisN't - piciiii- liciiiv; nn'iiiiL.'vd. Tin , rujnviiH'iit oi Liii <-!ii!i!ii ii \\ ;is ~i -.'.ijv.l bv';:I! (In- vaiioiis «I«-v i• -1--- tli.it un- snii<xl In such ,-mil \\lp:il. willi Uk r;i'-">i, !nv-. iiml <-jiU.'v:. l!n> Jit 1 l-o <i)v>s lunl a (hiy's jili'.-i'-nM' ii::i( will lint siion In , hii-hI!: n. 'i'l.c -i ,, !!) «»t" li:ippv. t'j t»11• -Ulst _'. >,:■■<,:■:.-■[, .-. ,o-,:|,| Jlot filil td st inillhi i< , :i"\ ' inhr.iii' , :nltili with /fill f<ir Snciilll-iii. i 11.'.: '.''l' I" nl',()Ii;ll ilii' pi'i'sclli lii!;!|-l s.:'j;i| vy.---toin. 'Aki<li iiivnivi's hiur-li .•nicll v ami to SCI HiMliV i'll'.ncrl.i \;»II!". :..r lin s in I lie liii.'i.'l'r ii'liln o!" ;><i jm J:ilion. At I !>'■ I,'ivl iiiivtiiiL; of Dill' pilfi \ ii w:is ;i-CM'f! to cont riljn i o shillings per wi'rli in tin , suliirv of llii !■■<■< r< lary lor tl'i> N.Z. S'miaiist Party, ('(iinr.-id. , Coulic. <il ('hrislcfuiirh, Was miminatrtl for this position by our li ranch.

We (Oiijjrattj!;it<' mn , ♦■■omrades oi Wostptn'-t «)>t Iliciv Mieiess ill oMsililiidliiit; a Socialist liraiu-h :ii that town. Thoii;:!) mule cd our tin iiiln'i> uric ;iiil< (o atteiii! <lw- ojioiiinv. nutting, oiii hranoli can be ro!iod on to ?o-o|io!at< vmlli and ai-viM' tlio work in Wostpoil. The Im-al I'assivo Hi'sistcrs , I'liion look aifvant.igc of tlio King's Hirthday to hiitd a hoi ::\\. and dance, ad I h< , iosnlLini'. ovoHoi'p's enjoyment did credit to tho I:v»Ij-. Tho lull" was arli-'t.ioiillv docor;ii«<<l. and the pr«-s-'iiro nt the lads' banner- ■ a fargo iod fl.ij bearing the vv<!rd«. "Millortou Paj-Mvo Kes-isterN , Vnioii. <lnr niotto : 7'Voodonr'- -tin- bit' attoiufnnof ~f tho public. fact thai praotically <•vory hoy in tho hall conspicuously displayed tho n<l bodgo ot tlio f'assivo I^^sihtors' I'nimi of N.Z.. and iho onthuMaMie way in nhwli all joined in singing iho inlornational anthom, "Tho lU'd Flag. 1, boro striking ovidoiico to th-e strong and v i<.-,r.r<m>- onposition ib.'it exists here acainst the Conscription Act. Siiroly, too. mob a gathering hidioat.ps iho pprcTid of tho iiulustrial volidnritv that knows no Ixntndaiios. Tlio njithom sung iv.i? in'ornat.ional ; tlio fint' honored was not the. Hag of ono nation only, but tho internal ionnl fiag--iho "Rod Flnir, tynifyivt , ' tlio com mull /iroHiorhood of man through tin- *a'iio red blood which flowp through tho veins of all. and to tho ond (hat all war and violenrt shall or;is«. Tho workorw of tho world aro annkoning to tlio fact i.hat tho tiinc lia.s arrivod lo m;'ko ooinnjoti cans ,, against tho common onomj of rapifaliMii, whi<h opjm'ssofi all irrosnoHivo of nationality: and tho caf-horing in Milleit-on on .Tune '\ boro oloononl witiios.9 v> !)>o .<y)iY>;n? of tho pi iiH:ip)e« (if intertirit ior,a! ori;anisation oven to those far-oil isliinds.— HKVKfLLE.