PATRIOTIC AUCKLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 319, 21 January 1902, Page 3

PATRIOTIC AUCKLAND.

RESOLUTION BY CITY COUNCIL.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night.

At a meeting of the City Council tonight, the Mayor moved: “ That this Council, in the name and on behalf of the citizens of Auckland, indignantly resents the slanderous attacks made in the German press upon the honor of the British Empire and upon the Imperial and Colonial troops operating in South Africa, and desires to express its high appreciation of, and thanks to the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain for his prompt, vigorous, and effective refutation of such uncalled-for attacks. This Council believes that tho adoption of a vigorous military campaign with the object of speedily terminating the war in South Africa is a policy dictated by considerations of humanity, and it regrets exceedingly that bloodshed has been prolonged by the actions of a section of our own countrymen in creating false hopes in the minds of the enemies of the Empire.” Patriotic speeches were delivers! by the Mayor and others. A suggestion of preferential duties against foreign goods was heartily applauded. One member stated that whatever duty the Government find necessary to put on British goods should be doubled in the case of foreign manufactures.

The motion was unanimously carried amid enthusiasm, a large gathering of the general public being present. “ God Save the King ” was heartily sung. A similar motion was carried at tho meeting of the Grey Lynn Borough Council.