POLITICIANS USE FISTS
M.P. KNOCKED OUT IN CORRIDOR SOUTH AFRICAN DISPUTE Kecd. 9.50 a.m. United F.A. — By Telegraph Copyright CAPETOWN. Friday. Senator Boydell, formerly Minister of Labour, knocked out Mr. Marwick, member for Illovo, Natal. Both attended a meeting of the Empire Parliamentary Association. On leaving the committee room at noon, Senator Boydell stopped Mr. Marwick in the corridor and demanded an apology, referring to criticisms he had made in Parliament of Senator Boydell’s administration of it sugar estate, on which the “poor white” experiment had failed. Marwick refused to apologise and
attempted to brush past. Boydell hit him in the face, and Marwick replied with a blow between the eyes.
Boydell then drew back and gave a knock-out blow. Marwick fell heavily. He was unconscious for half an hour. When the House met, the Leader of the Opposition, amid tense silence, raised the incident as a question of privilege. The Speaker suggested a select committee to co-operate with the Senate. The Prime Minister, General J. N. Hertzog, accepted, whereupon notice of this was given for Monday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 9
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177POLITICIANS USE FISTS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 9
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