THE MANUKAU BY-ELECTION

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21894, 22 September 1936, Page 9

THE MANUKAU BY-ELECTION

CHALLENGE ISSUED TO GOVERNMENT MEMBERS’ OCCUPANCY OF POSITIONS (PRESS ASSOCIATION TKLEGIU.iI.) AUCKLAND, September 21. A challenge to the Government to call upon the Hon. H. G. R. Masoij, the Hon. F. E. Lark, and the Hon. B. Martin to resign the positions they occupy apart from those in Parliament was made by Mr F. W. Doidge, National party candidate in the Manukau byelection, at a meeting to-night “I suggest that the Government has been guilty of hypocrisy unless it takes a definite course of action,” said Mr Doidge. “Trades unions such as the plumbers’ and the carpenters’ unions, have been warned of dire penalties for the same reason,” he continued, “but the pontiffs of the party, the high nabobs and the pooh-bahs, can do as they like. If the Government is to prove its sincerity, then it should call upon Messrs Mason, Lark, and Martin to resign these extra jobs, and if they don’t then they should be called upon to resign from the party. I maintain that the Government cannot run away from the issue, otherwise it will stand indicted on a charge it has made for itself.”

LABOUR CANDIDATE ASSAILS MR DOIDGE (PBES3 ASSOCIATION TSCEGBiII.) AUCKLAND, September 21. Selecting portions of the campaign addresses of Mr F. W. Doidge (his Nationalist opponent in, the Manukau by-election), Mr A. G. Osborne (the Labour candidate) said during a meeting to-night that the only thing Mr Doidge appeared to be doing night after night was to launch bitter and vicious attacks upon individual members of the Labour party. He had done the same with the Nationalist leaders when he opposed them last November. “It seems to me quite reasonable to suppose that he is using the same election speeches in Manukau to-day as he did at Rotorua, except for the necessary name changes,” said Mr Osborne.