POLICE REMOVE INTERJECTOR

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27225, 17 December 1953, Page 10

POLICE REMOVE INTERJECTOR

ELECTION MEETING AT ONEHUNGA

INCIDENT DURING SPEECH BY MRS ROSS (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 16. Police removed a male interjector Ibss than five minutes after Mrs G. H. Ross, Minister of Social Welfare, started speaking in the Methodist Hall, Greenwood’s Corner, this afternoon. She was supporting the National candidate for Onehunga, Mr L. G. Bradley. More than 100 women and a sprinkling of men filled the hall. When Mrs Ross began speaking she was shouted down by the interjector. Mrs Ross said, “Don’t put him out,” when the police moved in. but the man persisted “If you want to hold a meeting,” said Mrs Ross, “you should hire your own hall.”

The interjector: I’ll do that—if you lend me a Ministerial car to go around to meetings in. “Imagine what Mr Holland must have felt like with a thousand interjectors,” said Mrs Ross when the man had been removed. “That fellow was all right, but they were just hooligans at Mr Holland’s meeting, Mr Skinner said he could not find it in his heart to blame those people. All I can say is that if that is the type that is going to rule this country, you all want to take a second look at things.”