EMPHATIC DENIAL
When Mr. Veitch's charge against the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce was referred to the president of that organisation, Mr. A. S. Burgess stated that, the chamber had had nothing whatever to do with Mr. Masters' visit to Wanganui. "You may give Mr. Veilch's statement an emphatic denial," said Mr. Burgess.
From a member of Mr. Bain's committee it was learned that 800 invitations to Mr. Masters' meeting were sent out to all persons actively engaged in business in Wanganui, and those invitations were signed by the Wanganui branch of the National Political Federation. As Mr. Masters, as Minister of Industries and Commerce, had agreed to meet the business people of Wanganui to speak as "one business man to another," it was fitting and an act of courtesy to ask the president of the Chamber of Commerce to take the chair. Owing to Mr. Burgess' absence at the' annual meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Hastings, the vice-president (Mr. E. M. Silk) acted in his stead.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 10
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