DEEMED AN INSULT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21156, 1 October 1938, Page 8

DEEMED AN INSULT

INVITATION WITHDRAWN

By Telegraph—Press Association

CAMBRIDGE, September 30.

Following an invitation 10 days ago from the Waikato branch of the Labour Party to take the chair at the Hon. W. Nash’s meeting at Cambridge to-night, the Mayor, Mr Edgar James, received a ring last evening and was told that the executive had no confidence in him as chairman, did not consider that he would be Impartial and that another chairman would be appointed. “I keenly resent the imputation and consider it an insult not only to me but to the people of Cambridge who elected me Mayor of the town,” said Mr James to-day. He added that during the last year he had presided at meetings addressed by Messrs Savage, Armstrong, Nash, Parry and Lee. Although openly connected with the National Party as chairman of the Waikato branch, he always had maintained a strictly impartial attitude In the exercise of his Mayoral duties, and said that after the several meetings referred to above he had been congratulated by officials and members of the Labour Party for his fair attitude. He always had appealed for a fair hearing for the speaker at each meeting he had presided over.