LIVELY RECEPTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 275, 20 November 1935, Page 10

LIVELY RECEPTION.

CROSS-FIRE OF COMMENT. CRITICISM OF MR. DOIDGE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ROTORUA».this day. The National Government candidate for. Rotorua, Mr. C. H. Chnkard, was given a lively reception when he addressed a large audience at the Lyric Theatre last evening. For nearly two and a half hours the speaker faced a more or less continual cross-fire of comments and interjections, which at times become so persistent that he could not bo heard.' References to the Labour party and to the Independent candidate, Mr. F. W. Doidge, drew fire from various sections of the audience, and when a vote of thanks and confidence was moved "noes" came in considerable volume. The chairman, however, declared the motion carried on the voices. Mr. Clinkard said he took strong exception to statements mado by Mr. Doidge inferring that a number of the Government members were on the verge of senility and quoted Mr. Doidge as having said that the representatives of the people would soon be lining up in bathchairs. Mr. Clinkard said he considered remarks of this type unfair and a reflection upon members of the House. Mr. Doidge had hardly set foot in the country when he endeavoured to dictate to them how to run it. He was standing as a representative of British manufacturers, for all his arguments were designed to help them at the expense of New Zealand.