"IDIOTIC CHALLENGE."
MR. MASSEY'S REPLY TO MR. M'NAB. ?'A MORE REASONABLE PROPOSITION." (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Auckland, November 30. Speaking at Grey Lynn to-night, Mr. Massey reviewed in detail tho circumstances of the Mokau transaction, which be said was shameful. : During his speech at Palmerston North, Mr. Massey said he made a statement of tho Mokau ease. As soon as he was 400 miles away Mr. Robert M'Nab, the chairman of the Mokau Company, had issued an idiotic challenge that he should prove somo innuendo which he was supposed to have made. Ho had a more reasonable proposition to make to Mr. M'Nab: "If Mr. M'Nab car. prove that the statements that I mado at Palmerston North with rcgarl to tho purchase of tho Mokau block woro wrong in any substantial particular—l am not speaking of the crossing of t's or the dotting of i's-I shall retire from public lifo for ovor. If ho cannot do that, I hope he will stop this hysterical screeching and go through with his candidature like a' man and not like a child." (Loud applause.)
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 7
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