MR NIELSEN'S APPOINTMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 4 September 1912, Page 5

MR NIELSEN'S APPOINTMENT

ST CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEx, Sep. 3. In the Legislative Assembly, Mr' C. G. Wade, Leader of the Opposition, moved his want of confidence motion concerning Mr Nielsen's appointment as Trade Commissioner on the West Coast of America. He attacked the Government for allowing a member to occupy office to his profit. This was a technical breach of the law, and an attempt by the Government to secure the silence of a member who might be troublesome. The Government understood, that Mr Nielsen's pushing of his leasehold policy was dangerous, and to prevent party divisions it was decided to sacrifice him by getting him away to America.

Mr Holman replied that there had been no concealment of Mr Nielsen's appointment. Why did not Mr Wade move when Mr Nielsen visited America before? The idea that the Government had to buy Mr Nielsen's loyalty was gratuitously offensive to him and unjust to the Ministers. ' He denied that he accepted office for profit. The Government proposes to divide before the House rises and anticipates a majority of about two.