WELLINGTON, Sunday.
A mass meeting- of those in sympathy with the locked-out engineers in Great Britain was held last night on the reclaimed land. The Premier wrote apologising for his inability to be present, and enclosing a cheque in aid of the fund. Sir R. Stout, Mr J. Hutcheson, M.H.R., and Mr Wilson, M.H.R., and several others delivered addresses. Sir R. Stout suggested that a month of self-denial should be arranged, during which the workers throughout the colony should abstain from the use of liquor and tobacco. On the basis of official statistics he calculated this would result in raising £30,000 or £40,000 to send Home. A resolution was passed expressing sympathy and support with the locked-out engineers, and a collection was taken up to swell the funds which are being raised to assist them.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 247, 25 October 1897, Page 2
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