FROM SEDDON'S LAST SPEECH

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 8

FROM SEDDON'S LAST SPEECH

" . » ♦ . Bat seriously «2 woulfll say to live Australian Labour '•Party—adhere strictly to priiiciple. The gT-sat-ast curse of our' day is saerifics ©1 principle to ekj|3gdie3icj/ 'J. am a visitor to Australia, &a$ I aan therefore prsspeaking , quite -as candidly, a.:? I otherwise would, j having ,no to arouse •α-iiy internal But as 'Prime Minister for Mew Zealand —as Minister -of labour in that colony—l caa say fhis, that whatever the" Labour legislation which New 2ealaiid has adopted 3ms for lbs working classes, the class w.hic'h 'has reaped the "greatest advantage from such legislation 13 the capitalistic and landowning .class. ? ? —From Seddon *s last public sp-s-ech, delivered at a complimarijarj lunciieon given bythe Federa-l Parliamentary Lab;'pur 'Fh.rtjf O'si June-8, 1906, three days 'before Ms death.