POINTS FROM ELECTION LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26510, 27 August 1951, Page 2

POINTS FROM ELECTION LETTERS

“Interjector" wants to know why there is "all this fuss” about interjections; and recalls that election candidates used to cope with flying fruit and eggs. Commenting on a reported statement by Mr Skinner that if the National Party is returned the Government will be a "Menzies-Holland Government," “K.A.” says: “If Labour got back, it wbuld be a Nash-Barnes-Hill Government.” "A New Zealander.”—“Meetings of the deregistered waterside unions say that if Labour is elected they will be going back. They have previously ‘lined Nash up’ and one can see they intend doing so again.” Catherine Ferrar, in reply to M. Wilson.—“ Making a political speech is not a game, as the speaker represents only one side. If his opponent shared the platform, I would say that booing would then be fair and just.”

“Think before Acting.”—“Mr Nash has no time for Communists, or hoodlums, or bashing watersiders, but he gets all their votes; so* it is nothing new to say he will be lined up again. “Tired” (Reefton), in reply to M. Wilson on booing.—“ Very, very different from Mr Sullivan’s way was the treatment one interjector received from Mr McKeen. Mr McKeen was telling his audience that they now had to pay £lB to £3O a pair for blankets, and when the interjector stated that he had the best New Zealand blankets for sale at £ll 5s and tried to describe them, Mr McKeen signalled a constable to remove him. Only three interruptions from one man, and the Labour member could not take it. Some Labourites do not like the truth themselves, and do not want the people to hear it either.”