MILLS AT DANNEVIRKE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 4

MILLS AT DANNEVIRKE

A MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION.

Thq effort of the local journal to raise the Sabbatarian element to revolt against a “political meeting held on Sunday” was a pronounced failure. The Pajmevixho..Town. Hall . (one - of the finest and best equipped in New Zealand) was well _ filled as .congregation after congregation came tripping into the building until between aix and seven hundred had assembled. Mr Mills macje a good opening by stating his agreement that political meetings should not bo held on Sunday; that ordinary political meetings should not be held on Sunday; and that the ordinary .kind of political .meetings the people of New Zealand were used to would be inappropriate on any day of the week. He was in'favor or keeping holy the whole seven days of the week, and not of- being taught the virtues of the Mosaic dispensation on Sunday and forgetting all about it on Monday. Mr' Mills then got away into his sub-ject-in convincing-style,- recording in graphic language how New Zealand was being robbed of her sons through the giant evil of land monopoly so that as fast as ■ strangers were , being induced <ky florid ‘ advertisements abroad to come to hor shores, the native-born

wore going out at the seaports to search for wider opportunities. The audience was much moved by certain portions of the address, and signified tho fact by loud applause. Mr Mills was generously welcomed everywhere, and there wore many requests for him to return to Dannovirke soon.