HOWIE RULE FOR IRELAND
MOTION PASSED BY CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL. Frest Association CHRISTCHURCH, March 27. At the City Council meeting last night Mr McCombs, M.P., moved a motion in favour of granting Home Rule to Ireland and asking the Governor to forward a message to the Imperial authorities. The Mayor (Mr Holland) ruled such a motion out of order, but Mr McCombs moved that the council disagree with the Mayor’s ruling. This motion was carried by eight votes to seven. A number of councillors then left the chamber. Tlie Horae Rule motion was finally carried in this form; “That this council views with pleasure the resolution of the Imperial Government to make another effort to settle the Irish problem, and believes the winning of Irish confidence of supreme importance to the cause of Britain and her Allies.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9620, 28 March 1917, Page 6
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