TO DEFEAT HECKLERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1924, Page 15

TO DEFEAT HECKLERS.

A NOVEL METHOD. LONDON, Oct. 21. A new method of dealing with political hecklers- has: been, found by Sir Laming Worthi.ngton-Evans, former Postmaster-General, the Conservative candidate at Colchester.-. Sir Laming' attended a meeting last night prepared for trouble. It began a,s soon as he was introduced by the chairman, but the speaker had fixed a microphone on his chest, attached to a loud s^. eE I . L ail d, despite the attempts 01 his opponents to. shout him. down, he was able to ! remain on his feet for nearly an hour.

. .Hi |S statement of the Russian po«ition was received with shouts of liar. and he remarked that the •Russian Soviet seemed, to have wot into, the room. He o-roceeded amid great interruption, until the opposition stopped his speech by singing «Th e R!sd FI ay, ’ ’ wh i eh, however. was drowned ni turn by the singing of lor He s a Jolly Good Fellow'’ by part of the audience. , A section of the opposition then .prodrumsticks and brass cymbals which yot the better of the loud speak-’ ei, until they were seized by stewards, at which point an ugly situation was averted by gramophone music.