AN UNPOPULAR APPOINTMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3388, 17 January 1920, Page 6

AN UNPOPULAR APPOINTMENT.

BRISBANE. J:11.. 1:3. ’l‘he Governor, at the req-1-.*.°.’ of the Pan"‘:m:ental'y Opposit'lon,'c:L‘n.-,-d the Sccrctaiy of State for the Co.-mics (1 pl'(,f.est against. the appointrn -nt of Mr La.=n;on on political grounds ur.-d on awotxzt of the views expl'ess-3d bv him durmg the war period. The Gtfieial reply states that the appointment. has received -the Ki.rlg’s approval, and is not to be int’-mfered with. I " ‘ (The appointment of Ur Lennon, nlelnber of t.he Labour Party, as Lieu-.tenan't-Governor produced a. scene in the Assdnibly, Mr Barnes, the exTvr'easure.l-, expressed N,=»t.l'ollg disapproval on the ground that Mr Lennon had endorsed the disdoyal utterances made by thhe-'(‘.abinet, adding, “and now, forsooth, he is thrown upon the State as Lieutenant-Governor on the reconlmendation of the Government.” The Chairman ordered Mr Barnes to withdraw the words. but he refused and was suspended and left. the ‘House, amid ‘uproar’, as a protest against. stifling freedom of speech.)