MINISTER’S CHALLENGE
THE HON R. SEMPLE AND CRITIC. PUBLIC WORKS AND VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph —Press Association). WANGANUI, This Day. The Hon R. Semple, Minister of Public Works, has issued a challenge to Mr H. G. Jenkins, Wanganui, to attend the former’s meetings at Bulls tonight or Wanganui tomorrow night to prove statements he is reported to have made when addressing a public meeting in the interests of the National Party recently or “stand condemned as a coward and a liar.” Mr Jenkins, replying, comments on the delay by the Minister in issuing a challenge, saying “If his belated protest is a stunt to boost his travelling film show, or to put me at a disadvantage, the appellation of coward sits comfortably on his shoulders.” Mr Jenkins’s statements dealt mainly with Mr Semple’s visit to Australia and the administration of the Public Works Department. In support, he quoted newspaper reports and official figures adding: “Nevertheless, if I have done Mr Semple an injustice I shall immediately rectify it and not follow the precedent set by the Prime Minister in his statement concerning Savings Bank accounts.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19380530.2.55
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
186MINISTER’S CHALLENGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.