AUCKLAND EAST ELECTION.
CANDIDATE BREAKS GOWN. By Telegraph —Prets Association. AUCKLAND, June 9. j Mr McKnight, a Labour candidate j for the Auckland East by-election, j addressed a meeting of electors tonight. He posed as a true Labourite, a-.d denied that he was not in favour cf preference to Unionists. plained of having been badly treated by that section of labour that ted j after selecting him "withdrawn their | support, and put up a separate candidate. Tl:e committee which had put up the second Labour [candidate (Mr Davis) was, he maintained, only u scratch one, and had no authority to take the action it had. Fie complained strongly of Mr T. E. Taylor's interference. In addressing a meeting in tl.e Orange Hall, Newton, to-night, Mr Geo. Davis, the other Labiur candidate, alter speaking for a few rniti- ; uttes, broke down. Ho confessed j ti;at he did not feel at home a; d j stated that he was j;ot cut out for a j politician. Ihe candidate was not 1 able to get much further when he i broke down altogether, sr. d ritirtd. j
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 7
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184AUCKLAND EAST ELECTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 7
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