ROWDY MEETING IN AUCKLAND
MIXED RECEPTION FOB MR FORTUNE SPEAKER USES LANTERN I SLIDES J (New Zealand Press AssociatiM) I AUCKLAND, August B H A numerous opposition, shouting tinuous interjections, loudly cheewß and booing when the rival le*MS>i were mentioned, stamping and “CMtoK ing out,” gave the Minister in.tomK: of Police (Mr W. H. Fortune) aW| terous reception in the PrinqijiH Theatre, Dominion road, to-night.;.,| Mr Fortune was Eden, his own electorate. Th* atMKK ance of nearly 600, which almost the theatre, included many of hifWli porters, but in the noise th*joutdone. Mr Fortune, who had just retwng from Dunedin, said that curing )* absence “the underground has W busy.” | In spit* of the almost constwtjf roar, Mr Fortune delivered his jam by microphone. He was aidad JS screen slides and a “phantom vow which read the slides above th* mot#ing din. After Mr Fortune had answer questions for more than half an IW at the end of his address, a MwR vote of thanks was moved, amid show of ‘‘Too early yet." After rival cheers, booing, and If plause, the chairman (Mr J. M- Stevtoson) said he thought Mr Fortune Qi take his answer from the great mW" ity of the meeting.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26513, 30 August 1951, Page 6
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