THE OROUA SELECTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19008, 8 May 1924, Page 3

THE OROUA SELECTION

PROTEST BY MR. McINTYRE Following is a copy of a letter addresed to Mr. T. Pagan, secretary to Oroua Reform Committee, by Mr. Hugh Mclntyre: Dear Sir, —In confirming my conversation with you, I beg to put on record my protest against the peculiar methods employed in tho selection of the Reform candidate for the Oroua electorate for the next election. When I was approached by the officials of the committee, it was stated that the selection would be made by a committee, the whole personnel of which was read over to me. I agreed to abide by the decision of the members of that committee. However, I was astonished to learn after the meeting on Friday evening, May 2, at which the selection was made, that a number of additional members had been added to the committee, some as late as that evening. As this obviously violated the original conditions laid down, and afforded opportunity for political manipulation, and it apt to lead to underground engineering, to say nothing of hole-and-corner methods, against which, and loaded dice, the Reform Party has so strenuously set its face in the past, I have, in tU:se circumstances, no alternative but to state that I am not in any way bound by a decision contravening both the letter and spirit of the agreement, and hold myself free as to the future to take such steps as the best interests of the Reform Party warrant, and should I see fit to do so, to appeal for approval to the wider constituency of the electors at large. —Yours faithfully, HUGH McINTYRE.