ELECTION INCIDENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18191, 12 September 1933, Page 8

ELECTION INCIDENT

MR. COATES’ ACTION INTER J ECTOR ATTACKED DEMAND COR APOLOGY (Per Press Association.) CHIUS TOlll 11011, this day. Dashing from the stage into the body of the hull, and grabbing a resident ol Cashmere, the actiiig-ITiine Minister, the Rt. lion. .1. (I. Coates, caused a sensation at his meeting at Cashmere Masonic Hail last evening.

Holding on to the resident, Mr. Coates demanded that he take back an epithet ho was alleged to have thrown at him. A moment later, tile elector, amid all uproar, was seized by three or tour police and taken from the hall. Later he was allowed his liberty.

"If you think Hint a public man is going to put up with epithets of that sort, even in Lyttelton electorate, you are very much mistaken,’' declared Air. Coates on bis return to the platform.

"I will not be called by the name that man used. 1 have never been called it before."

The incident arose after an interjector, Mr. F. (). Shaddock, had declared that the Government had no mandate from the people to extend the. life of Parliament to four vears.

.Mr. Coates replied that the Government did have a mandate. It was then that Mr. Shaddock used the term “Liar."

The crowd was roused to a pitch of excitement as the police appeared and escorted ,\ir. Shaddock from the hall. “This is the first time this thing lias occurred in Cashmere." staled the chairman. “The man who used those words to the acting I’rinie Minister is a resident here, and I am very sorry it has occurred 1 might say that at the last few meetings that man has been an interjecting nuisance to everyone.”