MR FISHER AND NEW ZEALAND.
COLD RECEPTION Or HIS OFFER. Press Association—P.y Telegraph—Copyright SYDNKY, January 27. (Received January 27. at 3.50 a.m.) The ' Daily Telegraph.' in the course of sn article, says that the peop!« of New Zealand do not seem to be tired with the resolution of the Federal Labor > '.'inference that nejj.-.iJaiiens for closer f'atic -r;s . iiouid hnmcdiaic'y oe opened. It bniTK-rnviy adds 'Jjat the. New Zcalandert' a.;;.:'ale she iriness of workers who have been offered an Irish rise in the shape of a reduction in- wages. There, ip an u:.ter absence of any signs corpjlx>rati::q; Mr Fisher's forecast that New Zealand ir.ay join ihis '''<"■ deration within 20 years. It suggests that New Zeahmders are a ptopie who seiiisbiy consider themselves first, and arc lest to a .*?nse of what might be done for them and to them under a Government beiterk-iTiUy bent on turning the Federation into A c\?sa autocracy which shall bo a law unto itself. In t-he-ir con? •unctuous indiiferecce, is it ingratitude that tLie:;e islands aisplay, or is it a sens.; of iiusnoi?
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Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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179MR FISHER AND NEW ZEALAND. Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 5
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