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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10926, 15 November 1913, Page 4

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AWKWARD REMINDER FOR REFORM ORGANISER. PREMIER'S WRATHFUL EYE, BUT ELOQUENT SILENCE. (By Telegraph—Special to "Stan") , WELLINGTON, November 15. • . The House got a good deal of amusement ont of a question which Mr R. M'Oallum, member for Wairan, put to the Government yesterday afternoon. He wanted to know whether the Government organiser (Mr A. A. Paape), who, to use the questioner's phrase, ia at present carrying on. a hopeless agitation in the Wairau district in the interests of the so-called Reform Party, is the same Mr Paape who as a LabourSocialist candidate, contested the IriTercargill seat in November, 1908, and whose candidature was referred to by the editor of the local Conservative journal in the following words: —"It is sufficient to say that Mr Paape, holding the views he does, is unthinkable as & member for InvercargiU," and " that he was overfed by _ artificial means with indigestible Socialistic theories?" The Prime Ministor had shown great interest in the question, and rose immediately. Mr M'Callum had given him a chance. There was wrath in the Premier's eye, and he would have 6aid something sharp but for the goodhumoured chorus of " Order" which greeted him. Thinking better of it, Mr Massey eat down without delivering himself of the outburst.