A ROUGH SPIN

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11493, 21 November 1931, Page 4

A ROUGH SPIN

premier BADLY HECKLED at IKJj - DUNEDIN

boohed and counted out

c-rdUEL TO ORGANISED HOSTILITY

(Press Association.> DUNEDIN, Nov. 20. Unroar greeted tho Prime Minister last night when he faced an amlienco last n f~ Town Hall to the dhors. Tho demonstration, which last. If some minutes, appeared to have A , "Unnised and Mr. Forbes was b<s fuv tunes counted out. Only pormaliy i hc - cro wd, however, was hos1S and the hoots were mingled with Ch vnJ S Forbes was not dismayed by hia Mr. Forbes w aWyut . lfl m j nu t M reception „’ u b<jided sufficiently to 2£» w ita t. ta bi-* tw TJa Everv reference to economy Tto tho Libor party produced howls at protest, which drowned the speak<irAnVtime went on the police com- • nrfccl to caution a number oi the m le nctiJe' demonstrators, but every move in this direction brought forth Mr™ the other side must he remarkably weak when they could pair/ed in Dunedin a few *tehts hr. paimeu .. , |hc economic po-i- ---'™ l bm . MILS •of £20,000,000 in The prices for pnm»rv nroduce and it was absurd to claim thii ihe country could be administerid in the same manner as n it nad ;r 1 mnnev In spite of that, Mr. SJ3d add an f tra mOOO.OW ii expenditure of the Dominion °fßher remarks in regard to state, rnents bv the Labour party leader proSd practically * continual uproar Z? onlv those in the front of the platform' and near the loud shakers were able to hear a word of the PliIE • “S'Sto'SldH.at Mr. Holland cl,aimed to have all the courage, bur he (Mr Forbes) was not afraid to 1a... hat meeting and did not rmnd telling \C actors what the true position o countrv was, whether they liked fo. not. 'He quoted figure* to show that since 1925, the use of West Goa,i ’ ‘ (Lp fxpiv Zealand railways had tons and that, in the same period, the importation of Anstrahf-Ti coal had fallen from 313,000 tons to 40,000 tons. The time had come to make a forward movement in connection with t* lo secondary industries and every effort would lie made to place them on a sound footing. - storms of boohing greeted a r«pfenco to the Arbitration Court system. Mr Forbes said the intention was to make it more, in accordance with the needs of industry today. He was no, out to abolish the court, but the time had come- when awards and reg U lions which had lirown up withm the last 30 years must be revised. While Mr. Forbes was - his .speech, storms of boohing, stamping and hooting completely drowned his voice and, time aLor time, K« was counted out. As he finished, and made his way to his chair qim tfla platform, however, ihe other section oi the crowd gav R him a great ovation and the hostile demonstrators, lor a moment, .were completely drowned.