MAYORAL ELECTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21940, 29 April 1933, Page 8

MAYORAL ELECTION

LIVELY MEETING AT SOUTH DUNEDIN

Mr R. S. Black needed, and displayed, all his fighting qualities at the South Dunedin Town Hall last night, when an audience, which overflowed into the street, attended to hear him speak on municipal matters. Throughout the meeting there were many interruptions by more or less excited individuals, who now and again called for cheers for “Mr Cox,” for “Russia,” and for “Mr O’Rorke.” Mr A. H. B. Poulter, wdio was in the chair, experienced a difficult time. Mr W. Butcher’s motion of thanks and confidence at the conclusion was also put and carried under difficult circumstances, while an amendment of no-confidence, which was moved by one young fellow, went unheeded in the excitement. Mr Black, who maintained his composure throughout and was listened to * attentively between the outbursts by the noisy section, reviewed the position in similar terms to those he had previously ■ employed. He not only contradicted many of the statements made during the campaign by Mr Cox, but threw out a challenge concerning them by expressing his willingness to retire from the contest if he could be proved wrong, asking, as the alternative, that those now differing from him would vote for him. “What I am giving you _ are facts,” said Mr Black, “ and I claim to be not a visionary, but a man of action.” He repeated his statement that the Deep Stream scheme would mean far more to the unemployed than any nominal increase in the allotment, and added that Dunedin could claim to be the only city in the Dominion which had found work for every man sent along by the Unemployment Board. During his two terms of office he had done his best for every citizen; he did not stand for any colour, creed, or section, but for all. The assertion, therefore, that Mr Cox had come out “at the urgent call of the poor and oppressed ” was entirely unjustified. A long list of questions was dealt with by the candidate, the meeting closing at 10.30. ,

CR MITCHELL’S CANDIDATURE

Mr Mitchell addressed a meeting at Sunshine Baptist Mission Hall, Tainui, last night. There was a large attendance of electors, who listened to the speaker with keen interest. The candidate dealt fully with the various matters affecting the City Council at the present time, and offered a number of constructive ideas which, if returned, he promised to do his Utmost to put into practice. Various questions were asked at, the conclusion of the address and replied to to the apparent satisfaction of the audience. The' meeting terminated with a unanimous vote of confidence in the candidate. Mr A. Wilson acted as chairman.