AMUSEMENT CAUSED
“SPONTANEOUS” DEPUTATION. HOW IT WAS ARRANGED. CBv Telegraph—Special to Standard.) How a large and “spontaneous” deputation that visited Wellington this week was arranged is now made public, to the great (amusement of members and business men m the city. A letter from the Otago Expansion League to the Southland League has “let the cat out of the bag.” The letter from the Otago Expansion League to the Southland League reads as follows: —“We have received from an hon. Minister confidential information that a strong and representative South Island deputation supporting the Government policy of speedily completing the Main . Trunk railway would be very welcome in A\ ellington as a counterblast to northern opposition. We have requested our good friends in Canterbury to take up the organisation of such a deputation and promise support from here. Will you please place the matter urgently before your executive and besttheir whole-hearted support. We unlikely to get more from Sir Joseph Ward than from any other Prime Minister, and it is our bounden duty to strengthen his hands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1929, Page 2
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