INCIDENT IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MR. SEMPLE AND DIR. BODKIN. OPINION AT ALEXANDRA. DUNEDIN, Oct. 22. The episode in the House of Representatives on Wednesday night between the Hon. R. Sempje and Mr. W. A. Bodkin was a topic of general conversation at Alexandra next day. The facts of the case and the parties concerned are known to many residents of the town and the opinion was generally expressed, a correspondent of the Otago Daily Times writes, that had Mr. Semple received a more reliable report he would have remained discreetly silent as the history of the case as known at Alexandra certainly redounds to the credit of Mr. Bodkin.
In the House of Representatives on Wednesday night it. was alleged byMr. Semple that Mr. Bodkin had attempted to obtain Government assistance for a man evicted from a house which Mr. Bodkin himself owned. Mr. Bodkin completelydenied the charge, saying that he had for sale a house occupied by the man in question. When it was sold he gave the man a freehold section worth at least £5O and offered to help him with finance.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 253, 25 October 1937, Page 8
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