LYONS'S DEPARTURE
.anil*- - I (United * Tess Association.) j WELLINGTON, This Day. | Lyons deemed, after liming been a j few days in gaol, that lie would prefer Ito h i o'! 1 nt prison and -li" Dominion j too .Hid at- no: <' -u request i:o j allowed to leave ox tho Moetwki to :t iv . 'Hie Government had no desire to i;e->p Lyons m gaol, to which he was only j committed for refusing to hwive Cm emu.try: bin so st».n as lie expressed i i desire to depart, arrangements were at once made for him to do so. On Tuesday some of his personal friends approached tMr Fraser. M.P.. on the matter and las the result the Attorney-General was | interviewed and arrangements v.vro i made with the Minister of Justice for I the lvh-ise of Lyons. He sailed by the j Moer.iki, and contemporaneously the re- | mainder of Iris sentence was remitted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 July 1925, Page 2
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152LYONS'S DEPARTURE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 July 1925, Page 2
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