PRESENTATION TO AN MP.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12580, 29 September 1908, Page 7

PRESENTATION TO AN MP.

„. iPet United Preas Assoe?at on). .. v :' TNVERCARGILL, September 29. ii. ,Iv: D. 'Fraa'er, member for Napier, 4 was v banqueted at Wyndham last 2H£ht, and presented with a gold locket in ' rtepgmtion of hie opposition to the =£5000 g|£nt, £o t Meilde. .About 160 were present ifld eulogistic speeches were delivered^ Mr Fn^er* an reply, said he and his friends iftJPariiament would do their duty to them■UVes'antt to the Dominion by using every ' thg&hs to prevent what he termed the trag-mf-.W filching money from the peoples' picket to, give to a person who legally and mmillj was not entitled to it. A resolution Was unanimously passed protesting MstShsb any sum being voted, seeing that Mjeikle had already given a receipt in full duchaige, and calling on the members' of PiLfli&meht who place principle before exmdiency to resist to their utmost the passwg,) of any further /vote. Meikle also addreaspiPa crowded and somewhat rowdy iflteting-in another hall.