NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 28 June 1911, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

THE ACTING PREMIER IN THE SOUTH VISIT TO GORE AND INYERCARGILL. CUnitbd Pabss Association.) GORE, Wednes. Sir James Carroll and party arrived •by the first express from North to-day and were welcomed by Mr. G. J. Andereon, M.P., and prominent citizens. This afternoon the Acting-Premier officially declared the High School open. Sir James Carroll leaves for Invercargill' this evening, and ' to-morrow he wil visit Riverton and 'Otautau. He -will spend Friday afternoon and evening in Invercargill, and return to Gore ou Saturday. In response to a request he will deliver an address here on Saturday night and leave for Dunedin On Monday morning to deliver an address there on Tuesday evening. He will probably spea'k at Invercargill and Riverton,

THE LABOUR PARTY. OPPOSITION, TO Ti SEDGEWICK BOYS. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE TN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. WELLINGTON. Wednes. At.-a meeting of the National Administrative Council of the New Zealand Labour party last night, a 'letter was read from the Aaickland branch sugge&tinw that a protest be lodged against the Government importing any more Sedgewick -boys but seeing thai the Government had intimated that no more assistance would be granted' for further importations until the first batch had been in the Dominion 12 months, it was considered unnecessary to take, any action at this juncture, although the Council is opposed to the importation of cheap labour.

The Dunedin South bnar~h -reported that a large number of Government employees ' w.cre --• lini - sympathy Jw i th. th 4 party, but wer© debarred from taking active interest in the movement owing to the' nature of their emploment, which might be due to the Government system of espionage alleged to prevail*in some places