The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1911. INTERJECTIONS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 November 1911, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1911. INTERJECTIONS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS.

I A KKCJjtKTTABLfc foatui'o of the political meetings that nre being held throughout this electorate is the persistence of interniptovs. Many of tliem possess the saving grace of humour, hut even humour grows monotonous when one desires to follow a speaker's remarks and reasonings. Mossrs".Brown, Field, Monckton and Robertson all liave been liecklcd and to some extent disconcerted by the ii.consequcntial interrupter, and undoubtedly many njmMigst thoir audiences have shared in tho feeling. \t Mr Monckton's T>o-rin meeting on Thursday one member of the audience ro.se to protest heatedly against tho raucous interjections of a liKin in the gallery whoso outbursts, sometimes humorous and sometimes not, were being resented by everyono in bis vicinity. At Shannon some unseemly disturbances have occurred, through, which Messrs JaniCvS Allen and "W. H. Field separately suffered, and at Manakau Mr Robertson was badgered by irresponsible,,? iiit different times during his meeting. More than once, we hear, Mr Brown bar, been heckled while making his speech. Sir James ; Carrol], .at Levin, was another suf- i fercr. though ho scored off his j antagonists. Thero is no ;uf- j ficient excuse for such proceedings; I the time for questioning is a.t ques- i tioning time, and any persistent in- j terjections are unfair. The subject ! was well dealt with at Ohau last Fri- j day evening by Mr James McLeavey. j when he took the chair at 'Mr Field's ! mooting. He regretted, he said, j tho tendency to interrupt speakers j which was increasing in this dis- I trict. and ho was determined to do all he could, personally, to discourage the practice. Ho had not attended a great many political meetings this year, but he found at all he did attend that interjections were rife. They not only interrupted speakers, but were disconcerting to the audience. When a candidate allowed questions to be put at the end of a meeting there was no excuse for interrupting him with interjections, and he trusted that in Olrau at least no such experiences would befal candidates. Mr McLeavoy's remarks were applauded, and the member for the district had nothing I to complain about in regard to his ! reception. I -