“IMPUDENCE!”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12263, 26 May 1934, Page 3

“IMPUDENCE!”

MAYOR. RESENTS AIINTSTER'S REMARKS. MR. HAMILTON “CAME T« CRITICISE AND ItIDICUJ-E.” “CASTIGATED MEN ARE HIS SUPERIORS ” • (Press Association) PALMERSTON N.. Mav 25. A meeting of business people last night not only decided to support the relief workers in their decision not to go to the tree-planting camp oil the Kaingai’oa plains, but also earned a motion protesting against the disparaging remarks of the Minister c-f .Employment. ■ the lion. A. Hamilton, made here on Tuesday, which it was considered (reflected upon the Mayor. leading citizens, and representatives of the churches. The. Ala.vor stated that Air. Hamilton gave the city no credit tor its relief organisations': no credit for the money spent hv the City Council on relief works. £30.371 having neon paid last year in wages; no credit for the splendid response ol edizens to all appeals for money, food, clothing, and relief purposes.: and no credit to the Returned Soldiers’ Association for its accomplishments in the same direction. “The .Minister did not come to give credit, hut to criticise and ridicule,” he said. “It is nothing Khort of impudence for a Afinister et I ho Crown to come here and publicly castigate men who are his superiors in. every way. These men included the chairman of the Hospital Board; Hie president of the Chamber oi Commerce, city councillors, and ministorjj of. the churches.”