"ORGANISED ROWDYISM"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 81, 26 November 1931, Page 6

"ORGANISED ROWDYISM"

H.

DANIELS.

(To the Editor). 0 Sir, — May I be permitted to congratulate your paper on its unbiased attitude toward what is becoming" widely known, through the medium of the metropolitan dailies, as organised rowdyism. The tacties of the paper referred to in your leader have, by that journal's obvious partisan sympathies, merely .emphasised the existence of what a local candidate happily designates as "a policy of negation." This policy is, in effect: put Coalition in to keep Labour out. And, sir, this is the weak justification Coalition offers for the sparing of its political life. Regarding the inference that the Labour Party is the instigator of this organised rowdyism, the most kindly thought we can have is that the Auckland journal's humorist in an earnest, if mistaken, endeavour to keep his job, has tried to be really humorous, by prepetrating a cartoon, which, to say the least of it, is in execrable taste, and, in addition, can have no possible foundation in fact. The truth of the matter lies probably in the fact that, being totally without organisation, and therefore without aid from a beneficent (?) press, the dissentients at Mr. Forbes' meeting made use of the only means at their disposal, to combat the partisan influence of the large city dailies, on whose columns the people of New Zealand rely for a true reporting of public f eeling at such meetings. If the above probability does not exist, we must consider the alternative thought that the Christchurch incident has a far deeper significance than mere political heckling, and should he accepted by our politicans as an earnest of what future misgovernment might bring forth. — I am, fite.