CHAIR AT LABOUR MEETING
INVITATION WITHDRAWN
{By. Telegraph—Press Association.)
CAMBRIDGE, September 30.
Following an invitation ten days ago from the Waikato branch of the Labour Party to take the chair at tlie Hon. W. Nash's meeting in Cambridge tonight, the Mayor - (Mr. Edgar James) was telephoned last evening and told that the executive had no confidence in him as a chairman, and did not consider he would be impartial, and that another chairman would be appointed.
"I keenly resent the imputation, and consider it an insult not only to me, but to the people of Cambridge, who elected me Mayor of the town," said Mr.. James today. He added that during the past year he had presided at meetings addressed by Messrs. Savage, Armstrong, Nash, Parry, and Lee.
Although openly connected with the National Party as chairman of the Waikato branch, he had always maintained a strictly impartial attitude in the exercise, of his mayoral duties, he i said, and .'after several of the. meetings referred to had been congratulated by officials and members of the Labour N Party for his fair attitude. He had always.appealed for a fair hearing for the speaker at each meeting at which he had been chairman.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 21
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