A LIVELY ENCOUNTER.
' PROFESSOR MILLS AND THE LABOI'R FEDERATION.
MEETING END-i IN' l l’ll >AIi
l Waihi. Nov. 9. I Professor Mills delivered an address hire last night on behalf of j the No-license League. At the close | of Lis address the lecturer was questioned l y Mr. Fitzgerald (Socialist j leader), v. ho asked if Profess -r
Mills was aware that he bad be-m denounced by the Federation >-f La'.-..ir in Auck’and. Prof. Mills replied that he was prepared to face that issue at the proper time. Mi-. Fitzgerald rejoined. "1 h' pc you li face that issue some day with me. Walter Thomas Mills, ami I'll s vr you a sqtiarer ileal than yon _av ■ Scott Pennett or Bob Semple.'’ ( proar followed. Professor Mills .refused to be drawn upon this question. Further acetisa' ions w<*r< made by Mr. Fitzgi raid rega ,- -ii.-.-. Professor Mills' antagonism to the Federation of Labour. Th' se t.ileaa.tions Professor Mills s< renuou.slydenit d. Pandemonium r,-ign - I for i time, which led Professor t i remark. "IXO seen your i’i.i.i cattle before.’’ The noise and interruption increased until Pr.>ie-r< r Mills put < n hi< overt-;’.t ani left the meeting. The meeting cr-dcd abrupt’y, no proposition bem-g Itiktn Thi re v. as. a very large ami’.-ci--.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 276, 10 November 1911, Page 3
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