EPITHET RESENTED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 September 1933, Page 4

EPITHET RESENTED

MR. COATES EXASPERATED Interjector Goes Too Far SEIZED AND TOLD TO RECANT. MAN LED OUT BY POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 12. Dashing from .the stage into the body of the hall and grabbing a resident of Cashmere the acting-Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, caused a sensation at his meeting m the Cashmere Masonic Hall yes ter nay evening. Holding on to the resident Mr Coates demanded that re take back the epithet that was alleged to have been thrown at him.

A moment, later the elector, amid uproar, was seized by three or four police and taken from the hall. Later he was allowed his liberty. “If you think that a public man is going to put up with epithets of that sort,"' even in the Lyttelton electorate, you are very much mistaken,” declared Mr Coates on his return to the platform. “I will not be called by the name that that'man used. I have never been called it before.” The incident arose after an intferjector, Mr F. O. Shackloclc, had declared the Government had no mandate from. the people to extend the life of Parliament to four years. Mr Coates replied that the Government did have a mandate. It was then Mr Shaddock used the term “Liar.’’

The crowd was roused to a pitch of excitement, as the police appeared and escorted Mr Sbacklock from the hall. “This is the first time this thing has occurred in Cashmere,” stated the chairman. “The man who used those words to the acting-Prime Minister is a resident here and I am very sorry it has occurred. I might say that at the last few meetings, that nian has been interjecting and is a nuisance to everyone. ’ ’