MANUKAU BY-ELECTION

Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 4

MANUKAU BY-ELECTION

MR DMDGE'S CHALLENGE DOUBLE JOBS ALLEGED [Tes United Press Association.! AUCKLAND. September 21. A challenge to the Government to call upon the Attorney-Genera! ('the Hon H. G. R. Mason), the Hon. F. E, Lark, M.L.C., and the Hon. B. Martin, M.L.C., to resign the positions they occupy in addition to those in Parliament was made by Mr F. W. Doidge. the National Party candidate in the Manukau by-election, at his meeting to-night. “ I suggest that the Government has been guilty of hypocrisy unless it takes a_ definite course of action,” said Mr Doidge. “ Trades. unions, such as the plumbers and the carpenters’ unions, have been warned of the dice penalties for the same reason,” he continued, “ but the pontiffs of the party, the high nabobs and Poo-bahs, can do as they like. If the Government is to prove its sincerity, then it should call upon Mr Mason, Mr Lark, and Mr Martin to resign these extra jobs, and if they don’t then they should be called upon to resign from the party. I maintain that the Government cannot run away from the issue, otherwise it will stand indicted on a charge it has made for itself.” Selecting portions of the campaign addresses of Mr F. W. Doidge, his Na-i tionalist opponent in the Manukau byelection, Mr A. G. Osborne said during his meeting to-night that the only thing Mr Doidge appeared to be doing night after night was to launch hitter, vicious attacks upon individual members of the Labour Party. He had done the same thing with the Nationalist leaders when he opposed them last November. “ It seems to me quite reasonable to suppose that he is using the same election speeches in Manukau to-day as he did at Rotorua, except for the necessary changes of name,” said Mr Osborne.