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BARON'S REPLY TO JUDGE.

. DICNITY OF HONEST LABOR. BT KLKCTRIC TELEGRAPH —: COPYUMHI. TIMES AND BTDNEY RTIN SERVICES. LONDON, July 2. Baron Sate and Sele, in a personal statement in the House of Lord's, in reply to an attack on his honor by the judge in the canteen rase, said that when he pave up the adjutancy of his regiment he was glad' to accept honest employment as the travelling representative of Maidstone brewers. The judge had remarked that if his himself belonged to such an 'illustrious family he would rather starve than earn his living cadging beer orders. lie repudiated the mischievous, idea that a noble ancestry debarred a man from earning an honest living. Baron Saye and 1 Sele said it was a foul lie to say he tempted* Whitaker. He merely asked one officer, who was a satisfied customer of his firm, to use his influence with another officer. The firm only paid Whitaker out-of-pocket expenses. The Martinis of Crewe (Leader of the Housel said be accepted Lord Save and Sele's version, and stated' that he did not propose to take further action.

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Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 5

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BARON'S REPLY TO JUDGE. Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 5

BARON'S REPLY TO JUDGE. Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 5