MR WILLIAM HOLMES
BRITISH TRADES CONGRESS DELEGATE
VISITING MASTERTON ON SUNDAY.
SPEAKING PROBABLY IN AFTERNOON.
Arrangements have been made, the Member for Masterton (Mr J. Robertson) stated today, under which Mr William Holmes, the noted British Labour representative now in New Zealand, will visit Maslorton on Sunday.
As past-president of the British Trades Union Congress, Mr Holmes speaks for 5.000000 trades unionists in Britain. He has been associated all his life with British agricultural workers and is general secretary of their national union.
Apart from his trades union affiliations, Mr Holmes has been asked by the British Government and its Prime Minister (Mr Churchill) to speak for the whole British working population to their kinsfolk in New Zealand.
Although arrangements have not yet been finally completed it is likely that Mr Holmes, in his visit to Masterton, will be able to speak only at a public meeting on Sunday afternoon. It was only by very earnest insistence that Mr Robertson was able to have Masterton included in Mr Holmes's itinerary.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 6
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