A CHALLENGE

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 178, 16 April 1923, Page 6

A CHALLENGE

MR. WRIGHT TO MR. McKenzie CONTEST FOR MAYORALTY To a Dominion reporter last evening Mr. R. A. Wright said that in spite of his direct contradiction of the statement, Mr. L. McKenzie was still informing his audiences that Mr. Wright had given an undertaking that’ll© would not contest the Mayoralty this year if Mr. McKenzie retired in his favour two years ago. “No statement was ever mad© by me or by any committee on ray behalf,” said Mr. Wright, “either verbally or in writing, which would justify Mr McKenzie in making that assertion Ido not know now his reasons For retiring from the Mayoral contest two years ago, and I certainly had nothing to do with his action. I have stated definitely that Mr. McKenzie is labouring under some delusion, but he still maintains that I had given him such an undertaking, and I have no alternative now than to issue a challenge to him that if he can prove his statement satisfactorily, before some tribunal which we can agree upon, I will withdraw from the present contest, but ho also must agree that if ho cannot prove it he will similarly retire. . . . , , “Mr. McKenzie claims to be a sport. Here is a chance for him to demonstrate his claim to the title.”