ELECTION INCIDENTS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4461, 24 October 1933, Page 6

ELECTION INCIDENTS

PUBLIC MEETING DISTURBED Two incidents in the Lyttelton byelection campaign were brought before the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon. The scene in the Masonic Hall, Cashmere, where an exchange between the ActingMPrime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, and Mr F. O. Shacklock culminated in Mr Shacklock being brought before the court on a charge of disturbing a public meeting, was referred to by Mr E. J. Howard (Lab., Christchurch South). "I wish to give notice to ask the Minister of Justice why both parties to the incident at Cashmere were not proceeded against," said Mr Howard.

Mr C. L. Carr (Lab., Timaru) inquired of the Minister of Justice if instructions had been given to the oolite to adopt offensive and provocative methods and forms of address toward officials of unemployed workers' organisations, particularly when these unemployed men were of exemplary characters and enjoyed the inspect of the generality of their iellow citizens.

"An official of the Timaru Unemployed Workers* Union was engaged at the Redcliffs polling booth during the recent Lyttelton by-elec-tion and was wearing a photograph of one of the candidates," explained Mr Carr. "Inspector Cameron demanded its removal and when asked for his authority snatched the photograph, made inquiries regarding the gentleman's recent movements, and said he would 'soon be cooling his heels in a safe place.'"