ORDERLY MEETINGS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 60, 4 December 1919, Page 8

ORDERLY MEETINGS

MR. PIRANI'S ANNOUNCEMENT

NO MORE DISTURBANCES TOLERATED

"I have not called this meeting this afternoon because I am not able to set an orderly .meeting at night," said Mr. P. Pirani to a meeting of ladies in tho Alexandra Hall yesterday. Mr. Pirani has called three meetings in Wellington Central since ho appeared as ..Liberal candidate, and on each occasion he has been subjected to almost continuous interruption by tho Labour extremists. I am going to have a proper night nicotine in Wellington Central," continued Mr. Pirani.* "For three nights I liavo allowed the weakest element in the electorate to disturb my meetings. But I will show that element, if it turns up again, that tho law of New Zealand i= quite sufficient Jo protect a candidate at election meetings. A man would loso his self-respect if he allowed the state of tilings which has obtained in this electorate for many years- to continue any longer. I s.m going to prove my fitness to represent the people here and . . . I am going to show tliq disorderly' elements that if they want'to apply these tactics, they must apply tlicm at the meetings of their own candidates, so that their own candidates limy lie able to jwtee liow far their Sunday evening instructions are carried out at ordinary meetings during the week. "I hare addressed something like IK>O public meetings in New Zealand in the course of mv life, and T have never witnessed anywhere else' what I have witperaed -in Wellington Central. I sto that the time lias come for tlint to stop, at any rate, when I am the person who hires the-hall and wishes to place his opinions Iwfore the people. _ To-morrow night I am going to sneak m tins hall, and I can assure vou that everyone who comes here will get the opportunity of hearing tho speaker." (Applause.) Mr. Pirani-was subjected to a few_ interruptions at bis- afternoon meeting, most of them coining from a voiing man who spoke with a marked foreign accent.