"CLEAN AND HONOURABLE TACTICS"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22568, 11 May 1935, Page 7

" CLEAN AND HONOURABLE TACTICS "

TO THE EDITOR

Sir, —I notice that the Otago Daily Times report Dr M'Millan as having said at the declaration of the results of the voting for the Dunedin City Council that the vote that had been cast was not only a vote for the Labour Party, but it was a vote for clean and honourable tactics in civic "at which point a burst of cheering drowned the words of the speaker." Remembering the booing and hooting to which Mr R. S. Black and, to a less extent, Mr J. J. Marlow, were subjected to at times during their election addresses from organised sections of the Labour-Party*, I do not think they could subscribe to this statement. Neither could the Prime Minister after the treatment he received at the Town Hall a few years ago, nor could the great mass of the intelligent people who attended the meetings I have mentioned. An extract from an Australian paper makes interesting reading at the pi-esent time:—"Mr John Norton was always ready for the unexpected. A rotten egg was once thrown at him. It missed its object but broke on the table. It was an egg of very old vintage and the perfume was overpowering. Mr Norton advanced to the front of the platform and said: 'Would the gentleman who just threw his brains on the table please reclaim them?'"—l am, etc., Taihoa.