HECKLED MILDLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 11

HECKLED MILDLY

CHAIRMAN S THREAT AT MR. ENDEAN’S MEETING LABOUR PARTY’S DOCTRINE . "Please refrain from interjecting—there are ladies and gentlemen who have come here this evening to hear Mr. Endean speak. Ask your questions afterward. If you do not refrain I will have you removed from the hall.” , vl ?" * hes .® ‘ erm s Mr. J. B. Paterson, who piesided, quickly quietened, for a time at least, the more inconsiderate hecklers at Mr. W. P. Endean’s meeting in the Green Dane Hall las t even•Tk*' 4- Z!£ ere , was attendance of about 400. Mr. Endcan’s address, a forerunner to a stirring effort bv Mr. 5;.’ A. Wnght M.P. lor Wellington was short, but was considerably enlivened by retorts and comments from the audience. For the most part he dwelt upon the party’s land policy, manufactures, industries and railways. Firstly, I would like to mention the prophecy of Mr. Forbes, that after this election I will be a sadder but a wiser man,” said Mr. Undean. “I cannot see that I will be a sadder man if I lose or win. I have no axe to grind in Parliament.” Mr. Undean then turned to Labour’s doctrine of the socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange. Uvery candidate for Labour was pledged to stand to it in said° °* wliat r - Bloodworth had “Take defence, Labour wants its abolition but I say that so long as the Deague of Nations cannot guarantee us to be free from foreign aggression, we must adopt a means of defence which will protect our country and Empire " continued Mr. Undean. “And so you go T and examine the of the Labour platform and you will find it impossible of application. Yet the United Party is practically at the guidance of Dabour. Do all the workthree° te f ° r No, not one in It was when the speaker expressed his views «on the land policy that the chairman called the hecklers to order. A Voice; Put your machine-guns on them. “I have no desire to prevent the system of cutting up lands providing they are suitable for that purpose, but the settlement of undeveloped land would lead to increased revenue and it is that which New Zealand is wanting at the present time,” said the speakeil fhe most satisfactory method of handling the railways would be to ha ve -i e ? I V mana8 ‘ ed by a board of directors which would make thorough investigations before any construction work was carried out.