LEAFLET SHOWN TO HOUSE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26465, 5 July 1951, Page 8

LEAFLET SHOWN TO HOUSE

CARICATURE OF LORD FREYBERG MR HOLLAND’S DEFENCE OF REGULATIONS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. July 4. “Have you seen this before?” asked the Prime Minister (Mr* Holland), holding up in the House of Representatives this evening a sheet of green paper. Mr Holland, who was defending the emergency regulations in replying to a motion of no-confidence, added: “It concerns a very famous man and a great friend of mine who won the Victoria Cross. It was published by the combined strike committee of the Ngahauranga and Gear Com branch of the deregistered Welon Freezing Workers’ Union. The caricature shows him in uniform wearing the V.C. on his breast and on his other side another medal' bearing the word ‘scab.’ “Does anyone say we are going too far when we take power to stop this sort of thing happening? Everyone here should applaud the Government for taking steps to prevent this sort of thing, but all the Government gets is a motion of no-confidence." Although the Prime Minister did not say who the figure in the cyclostyled namphlet was supposed to represent, a leaflet was circulating through Parliament Buildings to-day which leaves no doubt that the drawing of a person in military uniform is intended to represent the Governor-General (Lord Freyberg).

THREATS MADE BY TELEPHONE

MR HOLLAND REFERS TO INCIDENTS (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, July 4. Telephone threats have been received by the family of the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) during the waterfront strike. Mr Holland lives with his wife and two daughters in the Prime Minister’s residence in Pipitea street. Wellington. During the debate in the House of Representatives to-night, Mr Holland said his family had had to listen to telephone threats that would disgust any decent man. This is the third instance of telephone threats to Cabinet Ministers. Some weeks ago, the wife of the Minister assistant to the Prime Minister (Mr J. R. Marshall), was telephoned to say that her husband had been killed. The wife of the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. A, Bodkin) also received an anonymous telephone call to say that her house would be blown up.