NO TRUTH IN IT
STORY ABOUT MR HOLLAND. PAYMENT TO STAY OUT OF WAR CABINET. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A suggestion that he was being paid £lOOO a year and £650 travelling expenses to stay out of the War Cabinet was vigorously denied by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr -Holland - , in an interjection during a speech by Mr Thorn (Government, Thames). Mr Thorn was discussing Mr Holland’s views on national unity. “What truth is there in a statement I read in the official Labour paper that certain interests are paying the honourable gentleman £lOOO a year with £650 a year travelling expenses to keep out of the War Cabinet?” Mr Thorn asked. Mr Holland: “I will answer that now if you will give me the time. There is not a tittle of truth in it. J An Opposition member (to Mr f Thorn): “A bit of a males nest.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 4
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152NO TRUTH IN IT Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 4
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