POLITICAL. INTERLUDE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 8

POLITICAL. INTERLUDE

AIK LANG SHOCKED CHALLENGE TO FIGHT Alleging in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly that the Deputy Speaker. Air. Missingham. in an aside from the chair, had threatened a Labour member with physical violence, Mr. Lang move l a motion that, if carried, would, according t.o the Speaker, Sir I). Levy, have been interpreted as one of censure on Mr. Missingham. Air. Lang alleged that Mr. Missingham had said to M?*. Baddeley: “If you say outside what you have just said I will deal with you. You say it again.” This, said Mr. Lang, was a challenge to fight, and should not bo tolerated. Mr. Missingham denied that he had challenged Mr. Baddeley to a fight and said he had told Air. Badele.v that if he repeated outside the remark that he (Mr. Missingham) was not fined to carry out his duties as Speaker, he* would take proceedings against him. Mr Lang’s motion was defeated by t 44 votes to 18