ELECTORS’ CONDUCT

Taranaki Daily News, 31 October 1935, Page 12

ELECTORS’ CONDUCT

COMMENT BY LABOUR CANDIDATE. NOISE AT POLITICAL MEETINGS. The Rev. F. L. Frost, Labour candidate for the New Plymouth seat, referred at Frankleigh Park last night to the conduct of electors at political meetings. “It is my experience,” said the candidate, “that people are most orderly and most attentive.” I have been received and listened to with the utmost courtesy. But I fear that many of the Government candidates are not having such an easy time of it. “My reason for referring to this matter at all is that it is usual for Government speakers when heckled to strike an attitude and declaim, /There is your Labour Party for you,’” Mr. Frost said. “Now 1 ..ould like to make it clear in this constituency that the pledged members of the Labour Party do not exceed 400, and we are appealing to every member to be perfectly quiet and self restrained at meetings held by every other party in the field. “This does not mean there will be no irterjections. The Government is facing a very grim and discontented body of voters to-day, and can hardly expect to escape all criticism. There are tens of thousands of voters in this Dominion who are going to give vent to their feelings and who are going to vote for Labour and work for Labour, but who are absolutely outside of the control of the

Labour Party. Therefore, I hope that once and for all the Labour Party will receive fair play from \ts opponents and not be blamed for every wind that blows against the Government.”