WAIHI STRIKE AGAIN.
WHO WON THE FIGHT?
(From Ocr Own Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, July 22. There was again an echo ol the Waihi strike in ttie House tn:s evening during tue debate on the Police Offences Amenument Bi.l.
ilr Payne said he had seen a photograpn ot two men lighting at Waiht, and seven policemen looking oil, without lnttrteiing. A Member: Who won?—(Laughter.) Mr Payne was evidently nonplussed by this unexpected request lor information, and his l't-ply wa6 inaudible. He said that if this Bill were now law the police would have to arrest Mr Michel. Voices: No electioneering. Mr Payne said: he was not electioneering. Mr Michel was trying to intimidate the workers of Grey by te.ling them that the State coal mine and the Otira tunnel were likely to be stopped if he were not elected. Subsequently Mr Payne declared that he looked upon the Minister of Justice (tho lion. A. L. Ilerdman) as "an incarnation of Nero."—(Laughter.) When the party now in power went out of office the workera of tho dominion would say: "Nero, my god, to thee this is due."—(Loud laughter.)
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15823, 23 July 1913, Page 6
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185WAIHI STRIKE AGAIN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15823, 23 July 1913, Page 6
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