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Minister’s Fate Hangs in the Balance DRAMATIC CABINET SESSION ATTACK IN PAMPHLET (United Pieee Aaeocution —By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.) Receiced 2,30 p.m. to-day. -OTTAWA, Oct. 26. The. fate of. Mr Stevens as Minister of. Trade hung in the balance to-day, following a dramatic Cabinet session, during which his colleagues delivered an- ultimatum that either he should explain his attacks on business as chairman of the Government’s “price spread” enquiry or quit the Commission. - . The Minister’s publication of a pamphlet commenting on the evidence before the inquiry closed was strongly resented. The Premier promptly banned the pamphlet. At the resumption of the Cabinet session to-day Mr Stevens was absent.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 October 1934, Page 6
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110AN ULTIMATUM Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 October 1934, Page 6
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