WAIHI STRIKE AGAIN.
WHO WON HIM FIGHT? (From Our Own Cor resrondent.) WELLINGTON. July 22. There was again an echo of the Waiiii strike in the House this evening during the debate on the Polx-e Offences Amendment Bid. Mr Payne said he had seen a photograph of two men fighting at Wuiht, and seven policemen looking on, without interfering. A Member: Who won ?—(Laughter.) Mr Payne was evidently nonplussed by this unexpected request lor information, and his reply was inaudible. Ho said that if this Bill were now law the police would have to arrest Air Alkhel. Voices: No electioneering. Air Payne said he was not electioneering. Mr Alichol was trying to intimidate the workers of Grey by telling them that the State coal mine and the Otira tunnel wenlikely to be stopped if he wore not elected. Subsequently Air Payne declared that lielooked upon the Minister of Justice (the Hon. A. Tj. Hcrdinan) as “an incarnation of Nero.”—(Laughter.) When the party now in power went out of office the workers of the dominion would say: “ Nero, my god, to thee tills Is due.”—(Loud laughter.)
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Otago Witness, Issue 3098, 30 July 1913, Page 81
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