RESIGNATION DEMAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 96, 23 April 1940, Page 11

RESIGNATION DEMAND

SEAT IN HOUSE

MR. BARNARD'S POSITION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

NAPIER, This Day,

Approximately 20 supporters of Mr. Barnard left the meeting at the conclusion of an address by the national secretary, Mr. M. Moohan, to members of the Napier branch of the Labour Party as the result of a request. Later a resolution was endorsed' as foliows:—

"That the national executive of the "New Zealand Labour Party accepts the resignation from the party of Mr. Barnard and demands that he immediately resign his seat in Parliament as he no longer has the confidence of the party which was responsible for electing him to Parliament." A second resolution was carried to the effect that Mr. Fraser be congratulated on his election .to the leadership and confidence displayed that under his leadership the cause of. Labour would prosper.

80 coloured slides and a. cinema film of the Centennial Exhibition. The scope of Mr. Anscombe's talk covered international exhibitions from the inception of the first of their kind at the Crystal Palace, London, in 1851. Canada, he said, had .shown a greater appreciation of the true value of exhibitions than any other country, and he mentioned that at Toronto a huge block of buildings was permanently maintained for an annual exhibition. Evei during the war the fixture had not been abandoned, and this year's, was the 63rd consecutive display.

A glimpse was given of the preparations made for the Rome- international exhibition to be held in 1942, which, Mr. Anscombe said, were being energetically pushed forward by Signor Mussolini as if there were ho war. . . . . ,

In referring to New Zealand exhibitions the speaker said there had been five on an international scale held in this country: Dunedin in.' 1865, 1889, and 1925-26, Christchurch i v 1906, and Auckland in 1913. Wellington's greatest, apart from .the Centennial Exhibition, was the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition of 1885, from which incidentally there was only one surviving member of the committee, Sir Chas. Luke, of.. Wellington.

Mr. Anscombe was heartily thanked for his address.