POLICE CALLED IN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 1

POLICE CALLED IN

INTERJECTOR EJECTED MR. J. R. LUNDON HECKLED A spirited altercation occurred at Point Chevalier Hall last evening during an address on civic affairs delivered by Mr. J. R. Lundon, a candidate for the vacant seat on the City Council, and a constable was called to restore order and eject a persistent interrupter. Mr. Lundon was enthusiastically supported by a large audience, several people being unable to gam admission. The speaker dealt with a controversy in which Cr. Coyle and himself had engaged about the ownership of properties upon which fountains had played in profusion during the water shortage last summer. Cr. Coyle had issued a statement that he was not the owner of the properties mentioned, but Mr. Lundon said that his search at the deeds office had revealed Cr. Coyle to be the registered owner.

Mr. Lundon dealt also with metal, timber and concrete purchases from the council by councillors themselves, and alleged that a contractor for metal had bought metal cheaply from the council, and later contracted to sell the same material back to the council at a higher figure. It was during mention of Cr. Donald and Gr. Coyle in respect to the purchase of material from the council that an inter jector. an ardent supporter of Or. Coyle, became more than usually spirited in his denials of the candidate’s statements. Not content with hurling interjections at the council candidate, the persistent one rose rom his seat and approached the latform. He was cheered and hooted simultaneously by sections of the crowd, and then effectively counted out. This forcible vote of no confidence in his interruptions did not deter the critic, however, and eventually the local constable was compelled to escort him quietly from the meeting room. Cr. Murray also spoke to the gathering. Mr. H. P. Taylor, in a short discourse, dealt chiefly with the' traftsport problem, and gave reasons why the present council should not retain office until 1931. The meeting expressed its confidence in Mr. Lundon as a candidate, and thanked him for his address. A resolution was passed regretting that the City Council had failed to confide in the public on transport ques-> tions, and urging that, because of the council’s failure to give an undertaking that their appointment to the Transport Board would be conditional upon them resigning in May next if defeated at the poll, the public be asked to vote against the Tramway Transport Board proposals being submitted on the following day (to-day). The meeting was held under the auspices of the Point Chevalier Ratepayers’ Association.