KILLED, STONE DEAD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10585, 14 October 1910, Page 1

KILLED, STONE DEAD.

VOLUNTEER LABOR DAY PARADE

ALLEGATIONS OP OPPOSITION

JOURNAL

By Telegiapk

(Special 10 the Oamciu Mail) ;-J Wellington, Octobei 13 j The Pnmc Mmistei's assurance that J thcic was no compulsion upon volmi- J toeis ta attend uaj light paiades on t\ Labor Daj "was distoited by tile Domm- I ion to-da-i into an attack on tho Prime Minister, who is declaicd to have killed the Volunteci paiade ot yesterdaj stone dead by his meie leph to Mi M'Laien's question In iepl\ to a question in the House to-daj on"the subject, tho Pume Minister said that he did not expect his h lends to attach un) impoitance to what the Dominion said about him It had got to the length ot misicpoiting him and then willing leading articles about him, the most contemptible thing in journalism anywheio The old established Opposition journals were honest enough to lepoit fanly anyone who was against them. Then they indulged in an\ criticisms fulb and licely and nobodj took exception to them "What he had" slated in the House on the sublet ol Labor Day paiades was that no instruction had been Issued to hold da>light parades, and it was not custumarj to hold paiades on holidajs II paiades wcie hold attendance would bo '^ohmtan On the occasion oi tho pieviojis -Laboi paiado a peisonal pajraenL of os pel man was made and no fine was imposed for non-attendance. Tins ve.u tlio Go\ eminent icndeied iiuthei assistance to volunteci companies by increasing the capitation giant ntan. In of this the Government discontinued the peisoual payment of os toi daylight paiades, Tins might lta\e brought about the smaller attendances and if such was the case'it showed little appreciation of the additional assistanco g,ivejft by the Government in iuci easing tho capitation Last yeai on Labor Da> beautiful -weather pievailcM, wjieieiis the condi-' tioiis on the last holiday were unfavorable. _,