WREATH OF VEGETABLES.
«v DEPOSITED AT STATUE. IRISH MEMBER’S ACTION. CONTEMPT FOR DE VALERA. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 20, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. Following the decision to remove the Queen Victoria statue from the Dail •Eireann, a member of the Cosgrave party, Mr Grattan Esmonde, arrived bareheaded, and deposited at the foot of the statue a wreath made of cabbages, cauliflowers, leeks and rhubarb, solemnly saluted them, and entered the Dail.
Officials later removed the wreath, on which was the inscription: “Hall and farewell I" It is understood Mr Esmonde’s motive was to register contempt for the De Valera party’s decision to remove the statue and replace It with a stafue of an Irish patriot. It may be recalled that Mr Esmonde was expelled from Australia in 1921.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18950, 20 May 1933, Page 6
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