COUNTED OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 272, 16 November 1935, Page 13

COUNTED OUT.

MR. A. J. STALLWORTHY CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS. uproar at jubilee hall. As at his previous meetings, the Democrat candidate for Eden, Mr. A. J. gtallworthy, was subject to constant interruptions from the audience' at the Jubilee Hall, Kingsland, last night. The jfayor of Mount Albert, Mr. R. Ferney, Tvas in the chair. Criticising the Government's failure to deal with unemployment, the candidate brought forth "Hear, hear" from different parts of his audience when lie sa id that in granting Ed per gallon to the brewers on beer the Government had ' s hown more concern for the liquor trade than for the children of New Zealand. Host of the interjections were similar to those made at previous meetings 'of Jlr -Stallwortliy, and the candidate said he knew the inter.jeetors, more than few of whom were Labour supporters in Boskill. At one stage he started to tell of his boyhood days, and immediately someone shouted, "We don't want to know about your past; we want to hear about your future." Later on ho was asked facetiously .to tell the story/ For much of the time the candidate ignored the interjections, but lib had to stop twice when he was counted out, the count being vigorously given.

One man walked up to the platform holdin" out a. pound note, and was apparently offering it as a challenge to the candidate to prove that he had not voted for a reduction in pensions, but owing to the uproar it Was difficult to gather fast what the challenge was. The note was tossed on to the table to lie picked up and handed back by the chairman. A woman also approached tlie candidate and asked him if the book ho held was Hansard. When Mr. Stallwortliy showed that it was she was satisfied and said. "That's 0.K." Mr. Stallworthy at the ti*"!b had been saving that he had voted with the "Noes" when the reduction of pensions was before the House. Every time the candidate mentioned ■Labour there was uproar, .but determinedly he plugged away in presenting tie Democrat party's policy, emphatically announcing that everything the party proposed could and would bo done if the opportunity were offered. And so the meeting went on till the chairman declared a- vote of thanks arid confidenca in the candidate carried, at which there was more uproar, and a final counting out. *