SHOUTED DOWN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 10

SHOUTED DOWN.

PERSISTENT INTERJECTOR.

THANKS AND CONFIDENCE? The Narrow Neck Hall was packed last night when Mr. Alan Donald, Democrat candidate ror Waitemata, addressed electors. For; a while a persistent, but good natured; interjector was troublesome, but the audience became weary of him and shouted him down. Mr. Donald denied the statement made by Mr. Coates last week that the cost of living had not been increased. "It lias gone up by leaps and bounds because Of the raising of the exchange, which was quite unnecessary, and ilie sales tax which followed in its wake," he said. Mr. Donald also replied to several points made by his Labour opponent, Mr. Lyon, during his Milford address, and said that the calculation that the Democrat platform would cosr. £22,000,000 annually was inaccurate and based on wrong premises. The split vote was another bogey which had been raised, but there was nothing in this, as was proved in 1931. Labour then gained 12 seats when there were only two sarties. In 1928, wlisn there were three parties. Labour lost seven. The interjector moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Donald, and another elector moved a .vote of thanks and confidence. There was doubt as to which resolution was carried.