FREE SPEECH.
Your correspondent "Fair Play" argues that "free speech" confers on him" the right to annoy some 3400 people in a public meeting. It should be clear to the meanest intelligence that hie ejection from the meeting by those around him had nothing whatever to do with free speech. He was thrown out of the Town Hall meeting because of his stupidly bad manners. "Fair Play" has the same freedom as any one of us. He can hire the Town Hall and talk to hie heart's content. I shall not be there to hinder him. But till he mends hie manners he will continue to learn that his freedom to annoy others is limited by their willingness to be annoyed. KEXNETH H. MELVIX.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 10
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124FREE SPEECH. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 10
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