MINISTER DECLINES
TO RECEIVE DEPUTATION. ECHO OF INCIDENT LAST SESSION.(By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 30. A sequel to the lively deputation of last session to Hon. A. Hamilton, Minister of Employment, and Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Justice, developed this week when a request was received by Mr Hamilton to receive a deputation from the conference of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement. He declined, and this was followed by a strong resolution of protest. When the Minister’s attention waß called to the matter, he remarked to the “Standard’s” correspondent that there were two reasons for declining to receive the deputation. The first was that, as he could not grant the request they proposed to submit, no good purpose would have been served by receiving them. “The other reason,” added the Minister, “is that on the last occasion I received a deputation comprising substantially the same persons as those who proposed to come this week they behaved in a manner which was disrespectful to a Minister of the Crown.” The Minister’s reference is to the scene which occurred when the deputation last session, having ascertained that their requests were not to be conceded, broke up in disorder, someone shouting, “That will do us, boys.” Then members of the deputation sang the Red Flag.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 1 December 1933, Page 6
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214MINISTER DECLINES Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 1 December 1933, Page 6
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