MR DEVLIN AT NAPIER.
NAPIER, January 16. Mr J. Devlin, M.P., who is touring the colony on behalf of the Irish Home Rule Fund, gave an address on the subject this evening in the Gaiety Theatre. There was a good attendance, the Mayor presiding. At the conclusion of the address the following resolution, which was moved by Mr A. JU D. Fraser, M.H.R., was adopted: — " That this meeting of Napier citizens in welcoming Mr Devlin, M.P., pledges itself to give both moral and material support to the Irish Parliamentary party. 6O ably led by Mr John E. Redmond in their grand struggles to secure the long-delayod measure, aelf-government for Ireland, the granting of which we are convinced would result as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, in strengthening and consolidating the British Empire." Thr si:m of £230 was subscribed <n Napier and £150 at Hastings towards the the Homo Rule Fund.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2758, 23 January 1907, Page 17
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