CONTROL OF WHARVES
GOVERNMENT’S POLICY PROTEST BY DEPUTATION /Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. There were sharp, exchanges be- | tween the Prime Minister, the Rt. : Hon. G, W. Forbes, and members of ; a Labor deputation which protested to | Mr. Forbes and the Hon. .T. G. Cobhe j to-day against, the Harbors Amend- I ment- Bill and the Police Offences Bill, j which give statutory effect to the war regulations. The deputation represented the Alliance of Labor, the Seamen's. Union, and the Waterside Workers’ Federation. It asked that the Government should drop both bills. Mr. Forbes said the Government was determined to maintain the powers held to protect citizens in time of trouble, and expressed the opinion that nt times such as the present, there was need for even greater powers than were already possessed by the Government.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 13
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137CONTROL OF WHARVES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18465, 2 August 1934, Page 13
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