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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 301, 21 December 1933, Page 9

A Passage at Arms. “Have a go at the chair,” invited the Mayor, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., after Mr. A. E. Armstrong and Mr. M. E. Lyons had indulged in a heated encounter at tho meeting of the Christchurch City Council. The fire of crosstalk opened when Mr. Armstrong said that in spite of Mr. Lyons’ crocodile tears —“1 rise to a point of order, and I suggest, Your Worship, that you rule whether that term is unnecessarily offensive,” stated Mr- Lyons. A voice: “Whether you are a crocodile or not!” Ou tho Mayor’s recommendation Air. Armstrong withdrew the term, stating that he meant that Air. Lyons’ tears over the employees who were asked to work on Christmas Day were not sincere. Air. Lyons: “I have done morn lor the Labour movement than you are over likely to do.” After a further wordy duel, the Alnyor invited the two councillors to concentrate their attack on the chair.