NOT WANTED AS CHAIRMAN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22521, 1 October 1938, Page 18

NOT WANTED AS CHAIRMAN

MESSAGE TO MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE

LABOUR PARTY’S ACTION RESENTED

CAMBRIDGE., September 30Following an invitation 10 day sago from the Waikato branch of the. La hour Party to take .the cham at th Hon W. Nash’s meeting at Cambridge fw-nieht the Mayor (Mr Edgar James) with. by last evening and told th£U tive had no confidence m mm a? chairman, that it did n ° fc ,£°? s would be impartial, and that anoth-x chairman would be appointed- _- ■ •T Sly' resent the imputation and consider it an insult who but to the people of Cambridge w elected me Mayor of Mr James to-day. He added that dur ffig tha last year he bad Wi* & at mfetings addressed by ister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Sarege). tne Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Mr n n n w E Parry, and Mr J. a. Although he openly connected with the National Party as c^aifiha of the Waikato branch, he. always maintained a strictly duties, tude in the exercise ' Mr James added that after swew of the meetings referred to above be Vior? bpen congratulated by Sfl imbeS’offte IgW-Pg* if. f a ir attitude. He had aiwajs f pealed for a fair hearing tor toe speaker at each meeting he bad P sided over