CAMPAIGNING IN CHRISTCHURCH

Evening Star, Issue 18144, 7 December 1922, Page 2

CAMPAIGNING IN CHRISTCHURCH

i THE NORTH SEAT. BITTERNESS AND MISREPRESENTATION. - "THE LIE DIRECT.’* [Special to thk ‘ Stab.’} ; CHRISTCHURCH, December 6. “It is with very great regret that 1 have to say that tho election in| Christchurch North has not been fought out on the lines that I wished—strict politics,” said Mr 11. H. Andrews, the Independent Reform candidate for Christchurch North, when discussing the contest to-day. “ A very great deal of bitterness and misrepresentation has been introduced. I have tried to keep away from personal references to my opponents, but the bitter attacks and gross misrepresentations of Mr Tsitt during the last few days force mo in self-defence to reply to him. When I went into tho contest I hoped for a clean light, no matter how hard. My hopes have not been realised. -The things winch have been said of me, and tho actions which have been attributed to mo, are absolutely wrong and untrue. Tho first calumny is one which I have often dealt with. At his first meeting Mr Isit-t said ho was going to make tho fight a bitter one and give no quarter. That was a direct chaUengo from tho first, but I lot it go. Then he said that, my expenses were being paid by tho P.P.A. He has reiterated'this inam and again, in spite of my repeated denials from the platform and in advertisements in the newspapers. I see that he has modified, it a little at his last meeting: If he had been an honest man ho would have accepted my denial, t repeat that 1 have never received a penny from the P.P.A. or any oilier organisation. I give him the lie direct.” THE AVON SEAT. SLANDER ACTION THREATENED. [Special to hue ‘ Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH. December 6. Mr D. G. Sullivan. Labor candidate for Avon, stated to-night that he had consulted his solicitors relative to the issue of a writ against parties whom ho would prefer not to name, claiming damages for slander arising out of statements alleged to have been made diu-ing the election campaign derogatory to his character. Mr Sullivan added that no writ had as yet been issued, but that his solicitors, as the outcome of tho consultation, were going into the matter.