MR. SEMPLE’S VIEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 303, 7 December 1936, Page 6

MR. SEMPLE’S VIEWS.

Would Not Be Traitor To j Constitution. Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, Last Night. I Speaking last night, Mr Semple | said: “Let us trust the present difficulty will fade away and that King | Edward will remain on the Throne, i “The world has been a big stage i and we have been one of the audi- | ence. We should have learned by now j ‘to be proud of the fact —y’ea, we I should thank God we live within the lour corners of the British Empire, the only empire which has held steadfastly to the principles of the people being masters of their own fate. ! < * 1 ‘I cast my mind back over my own ; political career and have reason to think of the advantages of the British constitution. 1 was motherless and working in a mine at the age of nine. The British constitution has al- ; lowed me to struggle from pitboy to | a. Minister of the Crown, and i would : be a traitor to the British Empire if ' I did not recognise the ■ constitution I which has allowed that to be done.” I