SPEIRS V. SAVAGE
“NO ATTACK,” SAYS UNITED CANDIDATE Speaking to an open air audience of Auckland West electors last evening, Mr. R. B. Speirs, the United Part) candidate for the electorate, said » e regretted that his complaint about tn® treatment of tubercular returned soldiers at the Auckland Infirmary hafl been regarded as a personal attack on his Labour opponent, Mr. M. J. Savage, who is a member of the HospitaJ Board. Nothing had been further from his mind, Mr. Speirs said. matter of public concern, he intended following the question up, whether he was elected or not. A questioner gave notice that at Mr. Speirs’s meeting this evening lie would ask the candidate where he stood on the “right of recall.” A Voice: “It’s all right, there is not much chance of die candidate needing to be recalled.” Mr. Speirs trenchantly criticised th e Government, especially over its action in purchasing Ngaroma land for soldier settlement when warned that it va* “bush sick.” It was one of the greatest blunders ever perpetrated among English-speaking people, Mr. Speir 3 said.
The meeting, which was held at Lambourne’s Corner, Ponsonby Roac., tendered Mr. Speirs a unanimous vot* of thanks and confidence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 508, 10 November 1928, Page 10
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