CRITICISM OF MR SEMPLE
AT NATIONAL PARTY MEETING MINISTER ISSUES CHALLENGE TO SPEAKER I United Press Association] WANGANUI, This Day. The Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, issued a challenge to Mr H. G. Jenkins of Wanganui, to attend the former’s meetings at Bulls to-night, or Wanganui to-morrow night, to prove statement; which he was reported to have made addressing a public meeting in the interest of the National Party recently, or “stand condemned as a coward and a liar.” Mr Jenkins, replying, comments on the delay by the Minister in issuing the challenge, saying: “If this belated protest is a stunt to boost his travelling film show' or put me at a disadvantage the appelation of a coward sits comfortably on his shoulders.” Mr Jenkins’s statements dealt mainly with Mr Semple's visit to Australia and his administration of the Public Works Department. In support he quotes newspaper reports and official figures, adding: “Nevertheless, if I have done Mr Semple an injustice I shall immediately rectify it and not follow the precedent set by the Prime Minister when he departed consciously from the truth concerning the Savings Bank's accounts, and when Mr Nash also deliberately left the path of rectitude in his allegations against the literary staff of the “Dominion.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 May 1938, Page 8
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