A FRIEND OF IRELAND.
RETIREMENT OP SIR H. PLUNKETT. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, April,2B. Sir H. ■C. Plunkett (Vice-president Department of Agriculture), who specially retained his office at the request oi Sir H. Caiiipbell-Banncrinan and Jlr Bryce pending a committee's inquiry into the Agricultural Department, retires at Whitsuntide, the Government yielding to Nationalist pressure, as embodied in a resolution moved in the House of Commons.
Sir Horaco Plunkett lias done wonders for the industries of Ireland. He sat in Pailinmont,_ hut when ho appointed an official of different political views from his own his party rebelled and defeated him at the polls. Ilu then proposed to relinquish his office av Vice-president of the Department of .Agriculture and Technical Ir si ruction for Ireland, but a memorial eoi.taining 15,000 signatures dissuaded him. In the faro of iniicli local criticism ho lias been revolutionising agricultural cdnciilions in Ireland, am! his rccenl; book, "Ireland in the New Century," is a uscfill contribution to tho Irish problem.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13890, 30 April 1907, Page 5
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163A FRIEND OF IRELAND. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13890, 30 April 1907, Page 5
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