DISCARD POLITICS
TIME OF EMERGENCY NATIONAL MINISTRY INVERCARGILL PLEA * PETITION PRESENTED (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, 'this day. A petition asking the Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, to discard politics at this critical time and form a National Government has been signed by 145 business firms of Invercargill and was placed in Mr. Fraser’s hands yesterday. The petition was not issued until Tuesday morning and the signatures were obtained in two days. After expressing the belief that the proposed War Council could not function without acrimony if its decisions were liable to veto by the Government, the petition adds: “We ask for an heroic Prime Minister and a Government that will devote itself to the formation of a National Government which will truly represent every class in this Dominion and devote itself to victory. We pray that you will not fail us or New Zealand.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20261, 31 May 1940, Page 4
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145DISCARD POLITICS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20261, 31 May 1940, Page 4
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