DEMOCRATS AND TITLES.
LABOUR PARTY’S “INTENSE DISGUST.” (For Press Association.) Dunedin, Juno 28. The following resolution was passed at to-night’s meeting of the Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Labour Party:—“That this branch of the Now Zealand Labour Party expresses its unqualified condemnation of the practice of granting titles for political services in a democratic country like New Zealand'; and most especially hereditary titles, and also its intense disgust tnat the nominal leader of the Labour Party, formerly under Mr. Seddou, and tiic Liberal Labour Party, should bo the prime factor in introducing objectionable class distinctions into this country, and desires to congratulate the Premier of Australia on his loyalty to his party and to democracy, and on his manly action in returning a plain commoner.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 109, 29 June 1911, Page 5
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