Lily for Candidate

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 503, 5 November 1928, Page 6

Lily for Candidate

GIFT TO MR. LYSNAR INTRUDERS ON PLATFORM Rarely ' has a chairman of a political meeting found himself confronted with so difficult a task as that which fell to Mr. C. A. Wilson, who presided on Saturday evening at the opening of the campaign of Mr. Fred Lysnar, Reform candidate for City Central. Uabour partisans were present in swarms and the meeting had not been in progress five minutes before they started a snap-fire of interjections that was to develop into a veritable ma-chine-gun attack. During the first half hour no policemen were present. About question time, however, a small detachment arrived, but taking instructions from the chair, ejected nobody. A towsled young man, in dilapidated clothing, who had unsuccessfully made several attempts to get past a big sergeant, at last saw his chance when the law was engaged with another inter - jector. Full of confidence he lounged up to the platform and jumped on. He posed to make a speech, but got stagestruck. Mr. -Wilson took him by the shoulders and planked him into a seat. Meantime the sergeant had approached unpleasantly close. The towsled one glanced apprehensively at the blue uniform and slunk out of the hall. Toward the close of the proceedings a rubicund little man waddled up the aisle unwrapping a paper parcel as he bore down upon the platform. Behind him, doubtless for moral support, was a companion, and a few paces in the rear marched the big sergeant. The procession halted before the candidate, to whom the ruddy gentleman handed an unblemished lily—symbolic possibly of pure politics. Mr. Lysnar acknowledged the gift with a handclasp that brought ’ blood to the finger-tips of the donor and tears to his eyes.