“DO YOU CALL ME A DELIBERATE LIAR?”

Shannon News, 31 August 1923, Page 4

“DO YOU CALL ME A DELIBERATE LIAR?”

BREEZE AT A CONFERENCE.

Feeling ran high at the wheatgrovers ’ meeting this afternoon, Says an “Oamaru Mail” of a recent date.

In referring to the meeting of delegates regarding the thrashing mill award of which much was heard before the general election, and which has been referred to lately in correspondence in ; the “Mail.” Mr. Gardner stated that he regretted that politics had been introduced into? the matter. He'was not going to allow Mr. McCulloch or anyone else to call him a deliberate liar. He had been sent as a delegate, and he was not going to sit there or remain a member of the Farmers’ Union and be called a deliberate liar.

Mr. McCulloch said that he stuck by what had appeared in the paper. It was a case of deliberate falsehood. Mr. Gardner: "Do you call me a deliberate liar! ’ ’

Mr. McCulloch: “I say it was a de liberate falsehood.”

Mr. Gardner: “Coma outside and call me a deliberate liar. Come outside and repeat it. Come outside .” At this point numbers intervened and the atmosphere calmed down.