WAIHI STRIKE AGAIN.
WHO WON THE FIGHT?
(By Telegraph.) (From our Parliamentary Representative.) WELLINGTON. July 22. There was again an echo of the Wai hi strike in the House this evening. During the debate on the Police Offences Amendment Bill, Mr Payne (Grey Lynn) yaid that he had seen a- photograph, of two men fighting at Waihi and seven uolicemen looking on without interrupting. A Member: Who won? (Laughter.) Mr Payne was evidently nonplussed by this unexpected request for information, and his reply was inaudible. Providing, he said, that if this Bill were now law. the police would have to arrest Mr Michel. Voices : No electioneering! Mr Payne said that ho was not electioneering. Mr Michel, he said, was trying to intimidate the workers of Grey by telling them that the State coal-! mine and the Otira. tunnel were likely to bo stomped if ho wiere not elect- j cd. , ' Subsequently Mr Payne declared that ho looked upon the Minister for Justice (the Hon. A. L. Herdman) as an "incarnation of Nero." (Laughter.) Mr. Paym-, had evidently; attended a picture entertainment Last "evening. j He added that when the party now in power went out of office, the workers of the Dominion would say, "Nero, my God, to Thee this is "due." (Loud laughter.)
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 23 July 1913, Page 5
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