LIVELY MOMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 18

LIVELY MOMENTS

318. FOBBES UNDER FLEE

TIMARU MEETING

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU, November 22. "Thank you very much for the good hearing I received. It has been a good-tempered meeting and I have enjoyed it very much. Thank you." In these words the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. G. W. Forbes) concluded Ins address at the Theatre Royal tonight, after one of the liveliest meetings' of the tour. The theatre was packed to the doors long before the meting started and a section of the i audience persisted in interjecting in spite of an appeal bj' the Mayor (Mr. T. W. Satterthwaite) for a fair hearing. The Mayor was howled down and Mr. Forbes smilingly continued in spirited lash ion. At times tha interjections came so fast that the Prime Minister could scarcely be heard. At one stage he reminded the audience that when Mr. Savage addressed them recently the Labour people and Government supporters too had come along and had given him a quiet hearing and a chance to put his story over. In every way they had treated Mr. Savage in a courteous manner. "I like a meeting with a bit of noise," said Mr. Forbes. "I would not like to have the quiet meetings Mr. Savage has." (Laughter 'and applause.) He described Mr. Savage's meeting in Timaru as a nice, friendly meeting, almost like a Sunday school treat. Mr. Forbes spoke on similar lines to previous addresses, criticising the Labour Party's policy of guaranteed prices, which he described as a miracle plan which had not been thought of until the elections came round. He also replied to Mr. Hislop's statements in regard !o juggling the public accounts and remarked: "That's not cricket and Joe Savage would not say it, anyhow." (Applause.) Mr. Forbes referred to a speech made by Mr. J. W. Munro in Dunedin in-whicji Mr. Munro was reported to have said that Labour had its guns ready to deal with "moneyed interests." In certain circumstances it I would assume control of the Reserve Bank and if the directors opposed Labour's instructions they might find themselves in prison on a diet of bread and water. "What happened in New South Wales," continued the report of Mr. Munro's speech, "can hap- ; pen in New Zealand but we have got our guns ready and they will get shot. I don't mean that in any other but a metaphorical way." 1 Mr. Forbes said he had read in the ' papers that Mr. Savage would be re- ■ turned with 44 Labour men but it was ■ evident that when Jim Munro, who • was regarded as one of the more level--1 headed members of the party, put over ! that sort of stuff he was not so satis--1 fied about his own chances. "I have never remembered a more favourable '■ reception ol Government candidates than there has been at this election," concludpd Mr. Forbes.