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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 70, 16 December 1919, Page 11

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MR. FIELD AT BELMONT. Mr. W. H. Field addressed a largo meet-i-.ig of electors at tho Belmont Hall lost night, Mr. Kiooll being in the chair. Ju the courso of his speech Air. Field said that ho had been compelled by tlio outrageous und utterly unfounded attacks mado upon him by the official Labour candidate to mention at his Otaki meeting on Friduy that gentleman's military leoord, and while uot publishing tho details he said that Mr. MMvonzio's ylaiu duty was to mai;o that record Known to the public. On Saturday morning ho lad telegraphed to his opponont asserting positively what that record was in relation to 'nis conscription and' the onth of allegiance, which was the true lest, and inviting him to pujjlish the facts from his military file. Hw pay book, would of courso show nothing of these facts, Mr. Fiold said he pointed out in his telegram that the gross attacks made by his Labour opponent and his supporters on Mr. Field's publio actions and priviito transactions, and liie duiial by (lis opponent of tho facts iii question, impellod him to fake this course. Ho had received a reply from Mr. M'Ketwie of a very rude character. That was usually tho way with people who hit below the belt in politics, when they got a straight-out blow themselves they squealed. When, Mr. Field said, a candidate was standing for Parliament in association with men of notoriously disloyal tendencies, men who lind insulted the ling, it was tho uudouhtecTriglit of tho public to know whether he himself endorsed their views. Wo wero a loyal community, Mr. Field added, and we wanted representatives who jionourod tho King and tho national Hag. A number of questions, chiolly of local Merest, were answered, and Air. Field was accorded, on the motion of Air. Natusch, a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. Mr. Field gives his final address in Lovin to-night.