OVERLOOKED

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 19

OVERLOOKED

Reference to the fact that Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell (though she did not name him) had stated at the Aro Street Mission Hall that he had overlooked her was made by Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Independent candidate for Wellington North, when speaking at the Sydney Street schoolroom last night.

"You will see by the papers today that I still have two rivals," said Mrs. Gilmer, amidst laughter. "I don't know what I am going to do about these rivals. One says he has forgotten me or overlooked me. Well, he has grown some to be able to do that. (Laughter.) And the other still talks about a fence and doubts, if I may say so, my integrity. Now I stated this evening when I read the paper that I thought it was about time I took the gloves off and had a go at both of them, but I still am not going to be drawn. I took up an attitude of independence and I gave very good reasons for taking up that attitude. When I take up a position I very seldom swerve and I think I will go right through till next week and will keep up that true course that I set at the beginning of my campaign."

Mrs. Gilmer said she was going to sit on the fence one of her opponents spoke about, but it was a pretty good, hefty kind of fence with a lot of good planks in it, some of which had been pilfered by others. She felt that she should let her two opponents go ahead and. not bother about either of them. (Applause.)

To be independent, said Mrs. Gilmer, was the salt of. civilisation, and the reason men and women were standing as Independents was that they were tired of the party business and were standing for their principles.