MR MASSEY INTEVIEWED.
J CHRISTCHURCH, December 4. Interviewed late to-night, Mr Massey said the' hall was uncomfortably crowded from the outset, and trouble commenced when & number of men—several hundreds—who were outside —burst open the door and gained entrance. Owing to the inrush of these men the hall became seriously overcrowded, and it was apparent it would be quite impossible to go on with his address. He did not care to comment on what took place, except to say that if the right of free speech was to be interfered with,, as bad been the case on several occasions during this election, then it was a case of good-bye to the liberty and freedom of which we had been so proud in the past. He felt certain it was only a passing phase, and what was going on at present would bring, its own remedy at uo distant date.
Mr Massey added that he had engagements every night up to the polling date, and was sorry he could not come back to Christchurch to speak. ■
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19191205.2.39.2
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17733, 5 December 1919, Page 5
Word Count
174MR MASSEY INTEVIEWED. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17733, 5 December 1919, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.