ELECTION ECHO
WRONGFUL ALLEGATION DISPROVED DUNEDIN R.S.A. EXONERATED An echo of the recent election campaign was heard last night at the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association. a letter which came before the meeting exonerating the association from the allegation that a list of members had been supplied to a parliamentary candidate. The Secretary of the National Political Federation (Otago Province) wrote stating that the association had been incorrectly blamed for having furnished a list of members whereby Mr A. S. Falconer had solicited their support in his election, campaign. Such a thingmight be procured without reference to the association, and that course had been adopted in this instance. Mr P. S. Anderson said this was a good opportunity of making it clear that the list was not sent out from the offices of the association. The executive would not countenance such a tiling. He thought this explanation should have been made earlier, but it was not too late now. Mr H. L. Paterson: Are we quite sure of our ground in this? The Chairman (Mi; A, 3fes.
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Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 8
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183ELECTION ECHO Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 8
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