MEMBERS’ EXTRA JOBS
Mr Doidge Issues Challenge
(United Press Association.)
Auckland, September 21
A challenge to the Government to call upon the Minister of Justice (the Hon H. G. R. Mason), the Hon F. E. Lark, M.L.C., and the Hon B. Martin, M.L.C., to resign the positions they occupy, in addition to those in Parliament, was made by Mr F. W. Doidge, the National Party candidate in the Manukau byelection, at a meeting to-night. “I suggest that the Government has been guilty of hypocracy, unless it takes a definite course of action,” said Mr Doidge. “Trades unions, such as the Plumbers’ and Carpenters’ Unions, have been warned of dire penalties for the same reason,” he continued, “but the pontiffs of the party, high nabobs and pooh-bahs, can do as they like. If the Government is to prove its sincerity it should call upon Mr Mason, Mr Lark and Mr Martin to resign these extra jobs, and if they don’t, then they should be called upon to resign from the party. I maintain that the Government cannot run away from the issue; otherwise it will stand indicted on a charge they have made for themselves.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23001, 22 September 1936, Page 8
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194MEMBERS’ EXTRA JOBS Southland Times, Issue 23001, 22 September 1936, Page 8
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