MEMBER FOR TIMARU.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 12

MEMBER FOR TIMARU.

NOT WANTED AT MEETING. TIMARU, April 16. The Washdyke branch of the New Zealand Labour Party will shortly hold a meeting at which it hopes to have present members of the Timaru Labour Representation Committee, but it does not desire the meeting to be addressed by the member for 'limuru (Rev. Clyde Carr). At the monthly meeting of the branch, the chairman (Mr W. \V. Henderson) reported on the steps taken to arrange a meeting so that officers of the Timaru Labour Representation Committee might attend. The secretary (Mr J. Harris) drew attention to the activities of Mr Carr, and the meeting decided that a letter be forwarded to the Labour Representation Committee requesting that Mr Carr be debarred from addressing the. meeting at Washdyke. ‘‘J. appreciate the inquiry,” said Mr Carr when the report was submitted to him. “I am in despair—all is lost. Mr !j. Harris, of AVashdyke, has spoken,” he added. “But what is the matter? Who is Mr Harris? 1 am not told. It is all a complete surprise to me, and it will be a bigger one if the Washdyke branch of the Labour party and the Timaru Labour Representation Committee uphold the petty Gestapo methods of this excited person. “As Oliver Wendell Holmes would say, ‘So what? Little man.’ When Labour was fighting for its existence in this country and this electorate 1 do not seem to remember Mr J. Harris, of Washdyke.” Mr W. J. Tutton. chairman of the Timaru Labour Representation Committee, said he might make a stato-i nient later.