PLAYING OF NATIONAL ANTHEM.
GOVERNOR'S ACTION UPHELD. (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, June 12. President Cosgrave has Issued a statement that the Free State Govern-or-General (Mr James Mac Neill), in refusing to attend gatherings where the National Anthem and not the “Soldiers’ Song” is played, is acting on the advice of the Executive Council. (Mr Cosgrave was reported by the Dublin correspondent of the “Sunday Chronicle” to have strongly disapproved the Governor’s attitude over the National Anthem. “God Save the King,” he was stated to have said, might be regarded by Nationalists as a Party tune, but in the case of the Governor this had no bearing, as he was the King’s representative. The trouble arose when Mr Mac Neill refused to attend Trinity College races as the Students’ Committee Insisted on the National Anthem being played before the “Soldiers’ Song”).
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18291, 14 June 1929, Page 9
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142PLAYING OF NATIONAL ANTHEM. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18291, 14 June 1929, Page 9
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