Workers’ Advocate to Farming Commission
MR. J. ROBERTS APPOINTED Realising tlic importance of the Royal Commission set up by the Government to investigate the sheep-farming industry, the New Zealand Workers’ Union has decided to engage the services of Mr. James Roberts as advocate, states the Labour paper, the Standard. The commission opened its sittings in Wellington on July 11. Sir Francis Frazer is president and the other members are Messrs. H. M. Christie, E. A. Rodger, Dickson Jardine and Arthur Cook. ‘ ‘ Mr. Roberts has been recognised for many years as the outstanding pleader on behalf of trade unions in the Courts of this country,” adds the Standard. ‘•He has no equal in the preparation of the workers’ case and in the examination of witnesses.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 170, 21 July 1939, Page 10
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