BANKRUPTCY DENIED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 10 January 1912, Page 5

BANKRUPTCY DENIED.

BY SIR GEORGE, SIR WILLIAM AND LADY STOUT. JALAP FOR JELLIOOE. London, January 9. Sir George Reid, Commonwealth High Commissioner, writing to the “Standard,” states that Mr. Jellicoe’s attack on Labour is wholly unjustified, and quotes Mr. Fisher’s statement in the House on October 26 on uhe. Commonwealth’s prosperity, .which was a sufficient answer to Mr. Jellicoe’s allegation that the country was m the ■brink ,of financial and industrial ruin. Sir George Rod says that when politically opposed■ to Labour- he was compelled to acknowledge the Labhour Party’s character, intelligence, and public spirit, and adds that some people are so accustomed to see the capitalist combine to fight in thenown interests that they areiunable to. recognise a similar development on the part of workers. Sir William Hall-Jones, H : gh Commissioner for New Zealand, writing to the “Standard,” says New Zealand’s exports arc greatest per head of any country. Also that arbitration legislation bar saved hundreds of thousands of pounds in settling disputes. Much of the Labour legislation had substantially improved the workers’ conditions. No humane man would object to the factory law. New Zealand labour conditions were the best n the world. Lady Stout, in a letter, combats Mr. Jellicoe’s statements, and taunts him with being a rejected political asnirant.