DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1915, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

INDIGNANT IRISHMEN. I A SPIRITED PROTEST By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Dec. 4. A meeting of representative Irishmen to-day unanimously resolved that state mcnts such as those cabled from Sa ■ Francisco, to the effect that a party o! . Irishmen left >*ew Zealand to escape 1 conscription, ought not to be published at the present time, when the unity of all nations of the Empire is pre-emin-ently to be desired. It was pointed out that the Irish were doing as much as, if not move than, other parts of the Empire. Of those on the Moana several had Irish names, but it was agreed tle.it tliey could not have been true Irishmen to have left this country at the present time. UNITY DESIRED. PATRIOTIC MEETING AT MASTERTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Masterton, Dec. 5. At a semi-public meeting, organised by Mr. H. C. Robinson, solicitor, held here last night, addresses were delivered by Mr. Hugh Morrison (farmer) and two representatives of Labor (Messrs, Rod MeCrae and Rippon). The Mayor's and Mr. Robinson's addresses were of a patriotic order, and appealed for unity in respect to the war. The following resolution waj submitted by Mr. Robinson and carried without dissent: "That this meeting desires that New Zealand should set tut example of unity to the Empire by organising to the full all the capital and man power of the country for the purpoies ,of the war, and requests the Government to at once call Parliament togethn for that purpose."