PRELATE’S REMARKS.
REPLY TO MINISTER. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 14. “It’s a perfectly absurd allegation to suggest that I was trapped into attending the meeting by political campaigners,” said Archbishop Averill, this morning when referring to the Minister of Employment’s remarks in the House of Representatives in reference to the Auckland protest meeting against social conditions. “The Church shouldn’t meddle in party politics,” he said. “I’m not even a member of the group that organised the meeting. I agi'eed to preside in a neutral capacity as far as politics were concerned but was in sympathy with the objects of the meeting.” The whole matter rested on social and religious grounds, he concluded. “The Honourable Minister is simply rattled,” said Monsignor Holbrook to an interviewer, “or he wouldn’t impute to the Archbishop and the clergy a connection with any political party at all. What we’re trying to do is to help the poor.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 247, 16 September 1935, Page 2
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153PRELATE’S REMARKS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 247, 16 September 1935, Page 2
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