Clash In Meeting Night Of Borough Candidates

Chronicle (Levin), 19 April 1949, Page 4

Clash In Meeting Night Of Borough Candidates

Sir, — On April 8,- I rpad on the scteen at. the Regent. Theatre that ; Mf. A. W. Parton Waa havirig a •! meeting in the Odaf ellows' iiail ori i April .19.* In your issue of April 14 I-nead that a riieeting had beeri 1 corivened for the sairiO date in Wiliamaj Tea Robriik. . It did 'not giVe' ; the • corivener of the. riieeting, . but said that the' Mayor, Mr. H; S. • Brirdekiri, would be iri the chffir arid e'arididates were irivited tO : speak.- ■ v Was this ineetirig hxed fdr the s^mO 'date-arid tlie same. tiriiO ac>. ci'deiitally ■ Of dritentiOhally? - Hgpf: pening , to meet. Mr. Parton,-T .ask^d. him what nis plans were. He fpf ormed - me that he had been . approached by the corivener to cancel his meeting -andij oin the other, but,, aa he pointed prit, ''you 6an't say things against your ' cliairman,'! and he felp pound to refuse the re.-, quest and tou coritinue 'With his' meeting as ihtferided. ' He* e'OiiM not see hims'elf as a yes man. It, therefOre, ap'pears that the remainder .o.f the ..candidates are in tfie ^ariie bok. Urifoftunately with the two meetirigs being at the same time the attendance will be 'sp'it. All will agreO that the ' Candidates as a whole will rio the best they can for the.bofOugh without., them saying so. Personally, I wo.uld like to hear Of things to" be rectifiCd of brought from behind closed doors, vt^hich meanS I will have to go to the Oddf ellows' Hall. Yours,,etc.,. "FISHING." Levin, • April 16.