AN OPEN-AIR MEETING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 87, 13 April 1911, Page 2

AN OPEN-AIR MEETING.

Speaking from the balcony of tho Cambridge Hotel in Cambridge-terrace last night, Mr. Qharles Thorp, a wharf worker, addressed a, crowd of about 100 people in support of his candidature for a seat on the City Council. Mr. Thorp, who spoke in a very husky voice — the result, he said, of the strain of speaking at seven previous meetings yesterday — dealt with a variety of subjects in quite an original manner, "and made several good hits. He was frequently heckled, but throughout he maintained the ut« most good humour, and made many smart retorts to remarks, evidently made with the object of disconcerting him. Amongst other tilings Mr. Thorp urged the completion of recreation grounds, the extension of the tramline from Con-stable-street to Kilbirnie, the establishment of a public market in the old Drillshed by way of an experiment, the opening of a fish market on the waterfront between Jervois-quay and Clydequay, the imposition of a tax on Chinese laundries, the establishment of a municipal laundry, the reduction of the dog tax, and the better housing of the workers. A vote^of |hanks and confidence was declared carried.