ELECTION INCIDENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 10

ELECTION INCIDENT

PUBLIC MEETING DISTURBED. WELLINGTON, Sept. 22. Two incidents in the Lyttelton byelection campaign wore brought before the House of Representatives to-day. The scene in the Masonic Hall Cashmere, where an exchange between the Acting Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, and Mr F. 0. Shaddock culminated in Mr Shaddock being brought before the Court on a charge oi disturbing a public meeting, was referred to by Mr E. J. Howard. “I wish to give notice to ask the Minister for Justice why both parties to the incident at Cashmere were not proceeded against,” said Mr Howard. Rev. C. Carr inquired of the Minister of Justice if instructions had been given to the police to adopt offensive and provocative methods and forms of address toward officials of unemplo’ed workers’ organisations, particula when these unemployed men were of exemplary character and enjoyed the respect of the generality of their fellow citizens. “An official of the Timaru Unemployed Workers’ Union was engaged at the Redcliffs polling booth during the recent Lyttelton by-election 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 inquires regarding the gentleman’s recent movements, and said he would ‘soon be cooling his heels in a safe place.’ ”