CITY ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 11

CITY ELECTIONS

NOISY AT' MIRAMAR

ALL PARTIES OUT

W:^The. highlight of iOieelectioil campaign—rfor noise; repartee, laughter, ajwajrs hearty : and sometimes derisive, interruption, and a torrent n-O^iussUons;1 before, during, and after sd^Q. a<ldress'es-^was given, at. Miramar JlC last: night wheii the Mayor and Citizens' candidates addressed an audience of about, two hundred in the Catholic , eiHall,- but if the meeting, was noisy it: ss-Was, except. ;for,theattitude plone or - sid 1**6- interrupters, hot -by any means always unfriendly. Half the audience justyiid not want-to-hear, was-'coni-toP?e!^y sceptical .and said so, and when ; other halt and the chairman did! pr^fu*ce«d.'&■' their appeals for a hearting the. effect, was. only passing; "* VI i-r;1?*?' audience AVas-:^there. for an «3*vening^ouV and; they-certainlyhad.it, and those candidates -#ho did: make; an,osd point nowiand then probably did better- for .themselves" than they had at meetings:where the audiences had sat in stony.silence and earnest _;atfenUon,- having -already, fully made g ;up, theirTninds to Vote for those they were listening to. The means test outpatients, housing, the Mayor's Fund, 4 «; the naval,base, how to make* £670 do what £.1000 hadudone before (which *«* *?■•»,■, spontaneous outburst: 'Think of a £,670!"), buses, the sad .l^-'-^i,^ 6 school ground, loans, • riches, -the City\eduncii: stall,- .were B -aff-attempted by, speakers, "sometimes ac^? som S access. One speaker, having' himself, heard by! giving every: 29 _bit as, g oo4:as; he was given, particuylarlyvto onerinterjector who' made fre^' _quent:reference to, pibrocjis and hag«"f^S' g°! ? f^ Jaugh, and possibly •saS* ' b,y■Ms last remark:' "At S'^^^^^^gs^avevaddressed l^have-^thanked; the V audiences %>r 6iss r patient hearing, 'but; I'm- hanged to;do that here." it Ayas/- a night of very gd^ererrt meetings.;, At,Kelburn?!' ~av/hisD t the Mayor arid some of the other e^^^l^-^- after they had 1 an audience of sixty eßor^a-aistenedinsilenceimtii io o'clock the^clpck still ticked onS |o«at-and^ listened.; enthusialuc"™ asiterjector'would have been welcomed 4 Jiat'Garrett, and Vivian Streets, both to ~ audiences.which grew from notWng ex° cent the candidates waiting their !^ • to_ crowds, that.blocked: toe roadway The .Vivian Street meeting was the more interesting 6f the twof for there ■S e^ ai fT mts ior the «S«flnte r-iw,^- f J ot.i here ftat and the Comssaras. 1: swMr & tojou. cnit Ihrow us out o« thTrat l^y^ d Ct^r The Citi2ens say and the Communists followed, and at 10 o'clock stillhad a crowd suf' ficieat'to hold up traffic Ba^J^^ "neettos at Houghton Bay. ,t>f between, twenty-and thirty ran along smoothly enough eSt from the ners^tent and rather stupfd C"*o«M?! $ 3?* want tc«'Jisten and