CRITIC ATTACKED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 9

CRITIC ATTACKED.

FISTIC POLITICIANS. 5 Ex-Minister Gives Critic K.O. in Three-Blow Fight. SOUTH AFRICAN SENSATION. ;) (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) , CAPETOWN, February 7. , Senator Boydell,, formerly Minister of 1 Labour, knocked out Mr. Warwick, mem--3 ber for Jllovo, Natal. Both had attended " a meeting of the Empire Parliamentary ? Association and were leaving the comi. mittee room at noon when Mr. Boydell - stopped Mr. Marwick in the corridor and 3 demanded an apology for criticisms made in Parliament regarding Mr. Boydell s administration of a sugar estate upon which a "poor white" experiment had failed. 1 Mr. Marwick refused, to apologise and '> attempted to brush past. Mr. Boyde 1, however, hit him in the face. j Mr. Marwick replied with a blow bee tween the eyes and Mr. Boydell drew - back and gave a knock-out blow. Mr. 1 Marwick fell heavily and was uncon--3 scious for half an hour. When the House met the Leader of r the Opposition, amid a tense silence, raised the incident as a question of t privilege. The Speaker suggested the - appointment of a select committee to 3 co-operate with the Senate, and the . Prime Minister, General Hertzog, 2 accepted, whereupon notice was given for i Monday.