MR. W.H. FIELD

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 7

MR. W.H. FIELD

Speaking at Belmont last night, Mr. W. H Field, Reform candidate for Otaki, .aid he had been cotopelled by.the outrageous andy utterly unfounded attacks made upon him by the official La; bour candidate to mention>at his Otaki meeting on Friday that gentleman's military record, and while not publishing the details, he said that Mr. M'Kenzie's plain duty was, to make that record known to the public. On Saturday morning he had telegraphed to his-opponent asserting positively what that record was. in relation* to his conscription and the oath of allegiance, which was the true test, and inviting hun to publish'the facts from his military file. Mr. Field said he j pointed out in his telegram that the gross • attacks made by his • Labour opponent and his supporters on Mr. Field's public actions and private transactions, and tho denial by his opponent of the facta in question, impelled him to take ; this course. He had received a reply from Mr. M'Kenzie of a very rude.character. When, Mr, Field said,-.a candidate wae standing for Parliament in association ■with men of notoriously disloyal tendencies, men who had insulted the flag, it was the undoubted right of the public to' know whether he himself endorsed their Views. ■ ;