SECOND BALLOT BILL.
" A HUMILIATING POSITION." [BT TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] - Ghristchxtrcii, Saturday. In its; remarks on the dropping of the • "gag" clause from the Second Ballot, Bill the Press says:— "We do not envy Sir Joseph Ward and Dr. Findlay the humiliating position in which tßey now find themselves. The Prime Minister deliberately set himself to impose upon, the public and the press of New Zealand restrictions unknown in any free country in the world, which would have produced in a British . eelf-governing • Dominion conditions which have now been banished even in Turkey, and are paralleled only in Russia. The question whether ' the public and press ' ' would have submitted to these restrictions is beside the point. ■An attempt strong Mid persistent attemptwas made to im- • pose them, and by that action the Government, and those-who voted with them, . Ijnust and will .be judged."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13872, 5 October 1908, Page 6
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142SECOND BALLOT BILL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13872, 5 October 1908, Page 6
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