NOT INVITED
LEADER OF OPPOSITION EXCLUSION FROM STATE FUNCTIONS (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, July 5. A complaint that official invitations to State functions were not extended to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr S. G. Holland, was made by Mr H. T. Morton (Oppn. Waitemata) during the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives to-day. He said that the Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, was becoming timorous and fearful, for not once this year had Mr Holland been invited to any such function. It was only right that the Leader of the Opposition should receive an invitation to all State functions. “ But we will forget all that,” he added, “in view of the excellent reception the people of Wellington gave him at the welcome to the present Governor-General.”
Mr T. H. McCombs (Govt., Lyttelton): It was deliberately staged.
Another Government member: It was a deliberate impertinence. It was an insult to the Governor-General.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26197, 6 July 1946, Page 8
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