The Boycott
p. 20 · Read in the full issue
Declared "Off" at Wau
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
WAU, Oct. 20.
THE boycott of Carpenter interests, started by the Mining Association be cause of a report that Carpenter in fluence was being used against the road plan, continued in more or less haphaz ard fashion until to-day, when it was declared “off”. This followed receipt of a radiogram stating that Sir Walter Carpenter was understood to be subscrib ing £25,000 towards the £150,000 loan for the construction of the goldfields road.
At one period, the leaders of the boy cott were threatened by Messrs. Carpen ter and Co. with actions for libel. Messrs.
Carpenter insisted that they had neither opposed nor advocated the road but were prepared to build it, if guaranteed reasonable conditions.