INACCURACY ALLEGED.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20225, 1 May 1931, Page 15

INACCURACY ALLEGED.

MR SULLIVAN REPLIES. "Practically all the statements that my opponent, Mr Hayward, made last night were quite inaccurate. He has been imputing to me statements I never made. He should have made sure he was on safe ground before he presumed to criticise." Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., Labour candidate for the Mayoralty, speaking at one of the Party's street meetings last evening, made the foregoing observations in reference to Mr Hayward's reply to his opening address in the Choral Hall. -

"In his reply to me about tramway matters," said Mr Sullivan, "Mr Hayward has got things all wrong. Had I said the things that he alleges I said, and for which he presumes to censure me, I frankly admit that I would have deserved criticism. Mr Hayward said that when Labour men waited on the Minister for Public Works, Mr Sullivan said that the tramway men were suffering under a ten per cent. cut. "It will be seen how badly Mr Hayward is informed when I say that while I was present at the deputation to the Minister in Wellington, I was not ono of the speakers, though whole-heartedly with its purpose, which was to right the wrong imposed on the Christchureh Tramway men. That answers that. Mr Hayward and Tramway Board. "Mr Hayward then says I asked how he (Mr Hayward) was eligible for Mayor of the City as he was chairman, of the Christchureh Tramway Board. He explained that he was not chairman. The answer to that is that I did not refer to Mr Hayward as chairman of the Tramway Board. I referred to him as the ex-chairman. "If I said that Mr Hayward and his colleagues on the Board had reduced wages by ten per cent. I underestimated the amount. I would have been much nearer the mark if I had said twenty per cent., bearing in mind the cancellation of overtime rates for Sunday work, the extension of the spread of hours from ten to thirteen during which the eight hours can be worked, and other degradation of the working conditions of tho men, constituting probably the worst attack on fair working conditions ever made by a local body in the history of the City." "The Press" Criticised. "I think I have made everything quite plain. These things are hardly worth mentioning, but Mr Hayward made such a mouthful. "I suppose you noticed that poor little article in The Press this morning. These fellows don't believe what they write, a lot of them. They are like tho lawyers in the Courts; they have to make out tho best possible case for the men they are defending. All the reactionary interests are the clients of the editor of The Pbess. The 'ono man, one job' argument was never used against Mr H. 8. S. Kyle, Dr. Thacker, Mr T. E. Taylor, Sir Thomas Wilford, Sir John Luke/Mr R. A. Wright, and a number of others who have been Mayors of towns as well as members of Parliament, and at the same time I have been doing two jobs for a good many years.'' Mr Sullivan said that if there was one thing the community would not stand for, it was tho reduction in tho miserable wages paid to the nurses in the Hospital. Unless the workers at the election made the greatest demonstration of solidarity and strength, it would be assumed by the Hospital Board and the Government that the attack on present standards of living met with general approval. POLLING ARRANGEMENTS. The returning officer (Mr J. S. Neville) and the substitute returning officer (Mr Albert Freeman) have* arranged for 71 polling places in connexion with the City Council and other local body elections next Wednesday. At some of the polling places there are two or three sets of booths, bringing the total separate polling places up to 97. There will be no fewer than 800 separate apartments for the use of voters. There will be two polling places in the vicinity of Cathedral square, the nearer being the site of the old Municipal Market, between the Federal Club and the Clarendon Hotel, Worcester street, on which a large marquee will be erected. At the City Council Chambers, Manchester street, inside the building, three complete sets, of polling places will be provided. " As has been the custom in the past, it is proposed to display the results outside the City Council Chambers on election night. It is anticipated that the returns in the Mayoral election will begin to come in about 7.15 p.m. Tho Broadcasting Company propose to broadcast the results as received by them from the returning officer.

CITIZENS' CANDIDATES' MEETINGS. Citizens' Association candidates in connexion with next week's local elections will address the eleetors to-night at Winton street Hall, Madras street North. Speakers: Messrs Wm. Hayward, A. A. McLachlan, W. H. Williamson, E. B. Dalley, W. It. Smith, and H. M. Chrystall, Another meeting will be held at Johnson's Fish Pond grounds, Opawa. SUMNER ELECTIONS. CANDIDATES* MEETING AT REDCLIFFS. The candidates nominated by the Sumner Burgesses' Association for the forthcoming borough elections addressed a well-attended meeting in the lledeliffs Community Hall last evening. Thev werp Mr F. J. Barlow, nominated for the Mayoralty, and Messrs J S. Barr, F. J. Edwards, C. Hart, L. J. Hulston. V. L. Jensen, H. B Kenuett, D. G Smith, and J. E. Tait. The candidates were given an attentive hearing and answered a number of questions. NORTH BEACH RESIDENTS ADDRESSED. A meeting convened by the North Beach and Waimairi Progress League was held at North fe&ach last evening in the Memorial Hall, when the candidates for the New Brighton Borough Council addressed the electors of North Beach. Councillor E. A. M. Leaver, president, presided over an attendance of about 100 persons. Before the business the meeting was begun, a motion of sympathy with Dr. Stevens in the loss of his brother by death was carried. . i The greater portion of the speeches covered the ground gone over at the meeting at South Brighton on Tuesday evening; but matters concerning North Beach particularly were covered.