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DEMAND FOR MR BARNARD'S RESIGNATION. MADE BY LABOUR PARTY MEETING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER. April 22. When a request was made at a meeting of 150 members of the Napier branch of the Labour Party tonight Lor those present who desired to support Mr W. E. Barnard to leave the gathering, approximately 20 left the meeting place. This is according to Mr M. Mooha.i. rational secretary of the party, in a statement, after the meeting. The remaining 130 unanimously carried resolutions calling upon Mr Barnard to resign the Napier seat, and of support for the Prime Minister. Mr Fraser. It was stated that 220 Napier watersiders who were engaged on working :m overseas vessel and who could not attend had apologised lor their absence and indicated that they were 10(1 iter cent behind the Government. Those who left the meeting included Mr D. B. Mcßae, president of the branch, and four out of five member.’-' of the executive. The meeting unanimously endorsed : resolution carried by the national executive accepting Mr Barnard's resignation from tile parly and demanding dial he immediately re-sign his seat in Parliament- -as he no longer had the confidence of the party which was responsible for electing him Io Parliament.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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205NAPIER SEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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