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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26619, 15 November 1947, Page 8

A FALSI STATEMENT The following report appears In the Otago Daily Times dated 12/11/47: HOSPITAL BOARD CHAIRMANSHIP "A lady came to me some weeks ago and said she had been asked to consent to be nominated as a Citizens’. Association candidate,’’ said Dr D. G. McMillan, chairman of the Otago Hospital Board, in an address in support of Labour candidates for the Hospital Board at St. Kilda last night, “ She agreed, was selected, and was told that she would be perfectly free to follow her own conscience, but before the ticket was announced she was told she must pledge herself to vote for a change in the present chairmanship of the Board She said she would do no such thing, and she , was dropped from. the party ticket." We give this statement an unqualified denial. No candidate was asked to give such a pledge nor dropped because he or she refused to do so. Either Dr. McMillan's imagination has run away with him or the "lady” concerned has made a false statement. J. L. McINDOE, Chairman, A C. HALLIGAN, Secretary, Dunedin Citizens’ Association.