DESCRIBED AS "FAKE"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 13

DESCRIBED AS "FAKE"

ME. MUNRO'S SPEECH

LABOUR OPINIONS

(By .Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, November 24. Declaring that the report of the

meeting of Mr.. J. W. Munrc, Labour

:n - candidate for Dunedin North, publish- ■;■■>. Ed in -Friday's "Otago Daily Times," ~'- r was a "fake to' frighten the people of Dunedin and a deliberate attempt to ;„ belittle the Labour Party," Mr. F. '■■•■■■ Jones, Labour, Dunedin South, at a ';" meeting last night, denounced what he ' termed the dirty tactics of the Press, especially the "Otago Daily Times." . •'.„ If the report was not a fake, asked 'ir t Ir' ies> why did not the evening ,;' paper publish it? Mr. Jones went on v' to say that the "Times" was not play- ■'.", ing fair, but was using dirty tactics to discredit the Labour Party, and expressed the conviction that the Press . was afraid that if Labour got into ',' power,-it wouldideal-with some of !i'ts ;'. -privileges. , - . ■ .

Mr. Jones added that some of the words spoken by Mr. Munro lent themselves to reconstruction, and by altering the context of them a false impression had been created. The "Daily Times" had been setting a trap ;to catch someone, and it had certainly caught Mr. Munro. Mr. Jones reiterated that the reDort was a deliberate fake, and that Mr. Munro's remarks had been wilfully misrepresented. It can be stated that the non-publica-tion in the Dunedin "Evening Star" of the report of Mr. Munro's meeting is explained by the fact that the "Star" did not have a representative at the meeting.