NO REDRESS.
WANGANUI SCHOOLMASTER'S GRIEVANCE.
PETITION TO THE KING. (By Telegraph to "Star.") WANG AN UI, this day. As an echo of the Cook's Gardens incident during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, when Mr. James Aitken, a retired schoolmaster, was taken off the grounds hy a local police sergeant in front of a large crowd, Mr. Aitken sought redress by petition to Cabinet and got no satisfaction. Then he sent a petition to the King, pointing out the indignity he suffered. He has now received the following reply: "With reference to your letter of September 7, enclosing a petition for submission to His Majesty the King, I am directed by the Governor-General to inform you that his Excellency has now received a dispatch from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs intimating that your petition was duly laid before the King, but that as it is not one which His Majesty's advisers could ask His Majesty to entertain, His Majesty has not been pleased to give any directions in the matter.— (Signed) A. C. Day."
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Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 9
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179NO REDRESS. Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 9
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