“The worst part of the business would not be sent through the wire. They wouldn’t trust the Government with that sort of union business. What they did probably was to talk through the telephone,” said a witness in the Wellington Supreme Court on Monday, when speaking of secret negotiations said to have taken place between certain seamen unionists in Wellington and Greymouth, (states the Dominion). “But the telephones belong to the Government, too,” commented the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) with a smile. “The Government only listensin at war-time; it doesn’t listen-in at any other time,” was the reply.
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Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 24
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