UNPLEASANT INCIDENT

Chronicle (Levin), 29 November 1946, Page 6

UNPLEASANT INCIDENT

HON. A. McLAGAN REFUSED TO SHAKE IIANDS CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 28. "You've got a nerve, " said Hon. A. McLagan after his win in the Riccarton electorate last night when the National candidate, Mr. Y. W. Wilson, walked up to him and otfered to shake liands. Reference was made to the ineident when Mr. Wilson spoke at tlie National Party eentre in Lichfield Street later in tlie evening. Introducing Mr. Wilson, Mr. T. N. Gibbs said that Mr. Wilson had walked up to Mr. McLagan while he was liaving supper at 3ZB. He then toki how Mr. McLagan refused to shake hands. Mr. Wilson said that he felt Mr. McLagan 's refusal to shake liands was tlie toughest part of the campaign. "I felt like letting him have one on the jaw or upsetting his tea," he toki the 300 people present. "However, I politelv turned my back on him. Mr. McLagan should have shaken liands because 1 fought a clean (iglit and kept , personalities out of it. [ regret to sav' M>. McLagan did not." "If tlie National Party, after having publislied a iiltliy, anonymous electionecring leaflet and a contemptible anonymous eleptioneering advertisenient during the Riccarton campaign considers that it has anything to gain from further plhcing the Nationalist candidate for Riccarton on public exhibition, that is the'ir business. Beyond that I have no'c'omnient to make, said Ilon. A. McLagan wlien asketl today to eoniment on last niglit'g ineident. ■