“PRETENCE.”
MR POTTER ON EXTREMISTS. The hardest attack yet made on the extreme Laborites was that of Mr. V. Potter, the new member for Roskill. He said that these people hind done more to raise- the cost of living than any other section of the community. They were opposed to immigration. They pretended to be m favor of immigrat'on. but these people did net want immigrants. They seemed to suggest that before a man could be brought here to settle we should Ijn: Jd him a six-roomed house furnish it, put pile carpets on the floors, and say to him. “There you are.” He himself would Ik© to see coming to New Zealand the hardy type of .settlors who were the. pioneers of this country, men who would carve out their own destiny successfully. “I am very much opposed,” lm said, “'to the proposal of the Labor members to bring over to this country two thousand extreme Bolshevists from Broken Hill on the pretence that ;tliis country, needs miners. A blind man could see through that.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5542, 26 July 1920, Page 2
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