HIGH COMMISSIONER.
LABOUR PARTY’S GRIEVANCE
(By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.)
WELLINGTON, Juno 24. “I don’t think the High Commissionership should be used to enable tlie Government to give a ‘plum’ to one of its members,” were the words with which Mr Holland introduced one of his list of grievances in the House of Representatives. Mr Coates: It gave the lion* gentleman a supporter. Mr Holland: That might be, but you had no idea it would*. , Mr Coates: We took the chance. Mr Holalnd: I don’t think you have the most suitable man. He italics too imich and as soon as he got into the Old Country he started to put his foot in his mouth and the AgentGeneral for Western Australia castigated him. The Prime-Minister does not think ho made the statement, but unless hei had done so the Agent-Gen-eral would-.not have issued his correction and since the contradiction Sir James Parr has been silent. I take it the Prime Minister has told him not to talk so much.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 6
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