AID TO BRITAIN CAMPAIGN
MEETING CLOSED TO THE PRESS REQUEST BY MR F. P. WALSH From Our Own Reporter '• OAMARU. February 18. Although the press throughout New Zealand has been asked to give the fullest publicity to the Aid for Britain campaign, a meeting (advertised as being open to all farmers and others with allied interests) in the Oamaru Borough Council’s chambers last evening was not open to the press because Mr F. P. Walsh, chairman of the National Aid to Britain Council, requested that newspapers should be excluded. The meeting was held under the auspices of Federated Farmers, and with the arrival of Mr Walsh, who was accompanied by Mr R. B. Tennant, Assistant Director-General of Agriculture, and Mr A. P. O’Shea, national secretary of Federated Farmers, the press was requested to leave the council chamber. When the president of Federated Farmers (Mr W. J. Doig), who made the request, was asked for a reason for this request, he replied that it was the wish of Mr Walsh, and added that a report of the meeting would be supplied.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25422, 19 February 1948, Page 9
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180AID TO BRITAIN CAMPAIGN Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25422, 19 February 1948, Page 9
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