WASTING TIME

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11877, 23 February 1933, Page 7

WASTING TIME

RELIEF WORKERS’ ORTF.VAN CES

PROTEST AGAINST NEW EX CHANGE AND SALES TAX

MR FORRES CUTS SPEAKERS

SHORT

Pros.B As«ocia t ■■.;

WELLINGTON, Feb. 21.

A sharp reprimand to a member of a deputation for unnecessarily wasting time, was given bv Air Forbes when relief workers from Lower Hutt protested to-day against the exchange ment, policy in raising the exchange rate and introducing the sales tax. • When Mr W. Nash, ALP., was staffing what had occurred at a meeting at Lower Hutt, which resulted in the deputation, Air "Forbes said: “1 have read all these attack,s in the paper. I did not know-0. M were here for the purpose of dating them.“ Air Nash: My purpose is to place before you the feeling of the meeting. Air F’orbe's: I read it in the paper.

Air Forbes afterwards said it would be better to deal with things that could be remedied. He objected to a request that- Air. Laird, who had read the greater portion of the meeting’s resolution, should finish it, He said: ‘‘There is nothing fre’sh about this sort of stuff.’ f

The Premier submitted to the reading, and when Air Laird went on with his speech, he asked: "How much longer are you going to speak? ’ Air Nash said there were ilhree more speaker’s.

When Air Forbes still demurred, Mr J. T. Strand, Alayor ef Lower Hutt, said: "I must withdraw. I .have a ease to state, but I can’it see why you should be harassed as you are now.” Mr Strand said he would put his case at the Premier’s convenience.

Air Forbes again said that if. a deputation came before them they wanted the case put concisely. Answering the representations made, he said he believed that, iwhat wad. being dohe was the best;, in the interests of the people. While they were charged with, being callous they were only human beings. The matters raised affecting relief workers would be put before 'the Minister of Employment.