POLITICAL BRIBE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1933, Page 5

POLITICAL BRIBE

LYTTELTON SEAT ALLEGATION.

ft’er Pres a 4i sbciation~~ Cozyr.fjht.)

CHRISTCHURCH, August. U

“I would bo -doing a very cowardly thing if I divulged of tha person who offered* me ‘ sum-of money to withdraw from’ this coptestiY'gaid Mr E. L. • Hillsv who ;is' Independent Labour candidate'- in the Lyttelton .by-election,-- at a; meeting, tonight, when lie was asked -to . giyei tljedhame so •as to -substaiitiutG- \ his'|s|aifcepiene earlier in the Week "that lie -had "received such an offer, and that it did not come from- the Coalition.-; - .'

Pressed to .remove' what a questioner termed; a stigma^.'- that-Mr: iHills’ remarks had cast, by innuendo, on the Labour • Party,' -the only’ other party in the campaign . for .'the seat, Mr .Hills sad: “My statement, was one of; fact, and I made .no-insinuation.' A '-I -have nothing to, withdraw. It is possible that it .was interpreted mean that it was the Labour. Party,r, or l some" other party, .that 1 made 1 , the offeri It ought to ,be ’remember Ad that’-inf dealing with bribery and . corruption, • it' is always with individual^: ’a-bil, tto be fair, to all parties, -wiR state,, that, it was not a political p|rty,-that offered me a suni to withdraw. T will go no further than that:”;-