THE FIJI TROUBLE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3409, 13 February 1920, Page 3

THE FIJI TROUBLE.

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“'l‘.-\KE THE PEOPI.E INTO {OUR

CONFIDENCE.’

'_|‘h secl'otal'y Of the \\v'¢;-Ijjugion Trades and Labour Council (Mr J. M. Campbell) has forwarded to the Prime Minister the following resolution; ‘‘’[‘hat the Government is respectfully invited to take the publig into its confidence in respect t.\_ we trouble in Fiji, as it is curl'em.~‘ reported and ;g‘ellel'ally believed that an nrnxed force is being sent «against those who are but asking for some measure of indusirial I'cdl'c-ss, and the tau(‘l'uCnll rhet cmfw shrd] cmfw shth The council has of late received a number of communi<;':Lfions on‘ this subject. and the rcsoluticm \\'as passed when thcsovcamo up for «-,onsidcl'taion lust Tlmrsday evening.

S'l"ATE).[EN'|‘ BY PR}:IMI.ER

“TO PROTECT BRITISH

RESIDENTS.

On the PlllllO MilliSl‘t‘l"s atlen‘rioll being drawn by :1 “'l‘inles” representative to the above I'e.<olution. he stated: “The Ship with tanned force on board is being sent to proiect the European residents, British citizens nmstly,illeaSe of a ri.~:ixl§,{ taking 1,E;1(»o, If has 11«Jt}1ing to do with the other business at all.” _

'l‘ll__, fol]o\\'ing motion \\‘il.< pzxsm‘-L‘. at '3, Im~eling of 1110 Wollixlgtolx North brzmch of the l\'u\.V Zealand Laboill' l.’:l.l:_\f: “That this brtmch of the New Z aland Labour Party expresses strong‘ Llisappl'o‘\'ai of Hll3 action of the Government in sending troops to Fiji. obviously for the purpose of intimidating the Wol'km's 01; strike tlmre, more especially as Mr )[:l:<.a‘.‘_\f made public. an as.~'ul‘anc(? that no trouble \\'}l:ll‘soo\‘(‘l' was '2ultix:ipa‘rod.”