MANY INTERJECTORS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 24

MANY INTERJECTORS

MR. BODKIN'S MEETING

POLICE INTERVENTION

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, September 28,

Mr. W. A. Bodkin, National candidate for re-election for Central Otago, addressed about 2000 people in the Town Hall tonight, and won a noisy duel with an organised opposition of several hundred. ' Police intervention was necessary frequently, and numerous interrupters were ejected. About half-way through the meeting about 200 left in a body, leaving the speaker to claim that one man had routed the forces of Socialism. MX. Bodkin attacked Mr. Savage and Cabinet for their sudden retreat from Socialism for election purposes, quoting Ministerial utterances to stress the quondam abandonment of unabashed Socialism. He dealt seriatim with the principal National Party objections and amendments to the social security legislation, and outlined the National Party's policy of progressive land settlement as a means to the absorption of 60,000 men now on public works, whose employment by industry had been rendered impossible by Socialist legislation. Despite the organised opposition, a vote of confidence in the National Party was carried with a deafening majority.