J. J. MEIKLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 10 January 1911, Page 5

J. J. MEIKLE.

VENTILATES HIS GRIEVANCE,

j Mr J. J. Meikle * ventilated his ! grievances at Port Chalmers last week i for two hours from the steps of the ''band: rotunda.;. He stated that his personal liabilities amounted to £3700 when the Government recently voted him £2500 compensation. TS.Q was now on a tour of the Dominion," which would terminate about the 9th of next mouth, when he left for London to tell "the British public, from the foot of the Nelson Monument, where New Zealand.was, and what it was." After that he would proceed to America "to Old Virginny," in quest of a legacy left him by a relative, to get possession of which he had to beat ''a cute Yankee.'' His foreign travel was arranged so that he would be back (in New -Zealand -before the General I Election, in order, to make, re-election i difficult, for "Certain members of, Pari liamerit. who. had not voted as be wishf ed in .respect to compensation, and to ' whom.he referred in anything but I complimentary terms. Meikle said he j deemed himself deserving of £24,000 1 odd of compensation, and wl«-n he called for questions at the end of his remarks the only response was an inquiry regarding the distinction between a "free pardon" arid an "acquittal."