CANDIDATE HECKLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22261, 8 November 1935, Page 14

CANDIDATE HECKLED

LIVELY NEWMARKET MEETING MANY QUESTIONS ANSWERED Addressing an audience that tilled the Municipal Hal! at Newmarket last night, Mr. H. P. Burton, National Government candidate for Auckland East, was accorded a quiet and attentive hearing for the first 10 minutes only. After that tiiere wer*»' frequent interjections and bursts of noise- and jeering from members of the audience sympathetic with Labour. Tho chairman, Mr. S. Donaldson, made an appeal to a bcction of tho audience to "play tho game." He reminded them that at the meeting held by Mr. F. W. Schramm, the Labour candidate, Mr. Schramm had appealed to them to givo every candidate a failhearing, and the chairman said that in fairness to Mr. Schramm that should be honoured. His appeal had little effect, however, and tho candidate considerably shortened his defence of the Government's policy in order to give scope to those who were evidently anxious to speak. Question time was eagerly seized on. and, when after half an hour, a man rose to move a vote of thanks ho was enthusiastically counted out. Eventually a motion thanking Mr. Burton for his address and expressing appreciation of his personal qualities, but entire lack of faith in the policy ho represented, was put to the meeting. There were loud cries for and against, and the chairman remarked, "I'm afraid £he ayes have it."