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COLLAPSED AT
FUNERAL
Harry Holland's
Death
WELL KNOWN IN
BROKEN HILL
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), October 9.
Mr. Harry Holland, leader of thc
New Zealand Parliamentary Labor
Party, collapsed while attending the
funeral of a Maori "King." He died
several hours later.
The Prime Minister (Mr. Forbes)
said that Mr. Holland's word was al-
ways his bond. He never dealt an
unfair blow.
Mr. Holland was well known
throughout Australia, and was at one
time a prominent working class fighter
in Broken Hill. At the invitation of
the Socialists group he was here dur-
ing the 1909 lock out.
The moderates on the official com-
bined committee took exception to his
coming, and he was refused the right
to speak on the official platform. Hol-
land, however, made himself heard on
the street comers. His speeches led
him into conflict with the law and he
was charged with seditious utterances.
He was tried at Albury and received
a sentence of two years.
Holland on that occasion conducted
his own defence, having refused the
Combined Unions Committee's offer
of legal assistance because of their
refusal to allow him to speak at the
union meetings when in Broken Hill.
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