MR SAVAGE’S VISIT ON SATURDAY
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —Great interest is being taken in the visit of our Prime Minister on Saturday, and it will interest your readers if you can inform them whether, as is usual on all such occasions, the front row seats will be reserved for friends of the Labour Party and the City Council, and if so who has control of them and distributes this privilege. It is given out that “no tickets will be issued.” Does this mean that every seat will be free to the public or that, to use the phrase of a citizen I overheard “They are sure to reserve them for their own mob.” Have the organisers of the meeting or our Labour Mayor authority to distribute them as they see 'fit or refuse any public application to secure one? —Yours, etc., INQUIRER. July 28, 1938. [The Mayor (Mr R. M. Macfarlane), to whom this letter was referred, said he had no comment to offer.!
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 20
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