TITLES-A NOTE OF DISGUST.
BY A LABOUR BODY. (By Telegraph-Press Association.! Dunedin, Juno 28. The following resolution was passed at to-night's meeting ot the Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Labour Party:—'"that this branch of tho New Zealand Labour Party expresses its unqualified condemnation of the practice of granting titles for political services in a democratic country like New Zealand, and, most especially, hereditary titles, and also its intense disgust that the nominal leader of tho Labour party—formerly under Mr. Seddon and tho Liberal Labour party —should be a prime factor in introducing an objectionable class distinction into this country, and it desires to congratulate tho Prime Minister of Australia on his loyalty to his party, and to democracy, and on his manly action in remaining a plain, commoner."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 29 June 1911, Page 6
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