POLITICAL WRESTLE
$ CANDIDATE PUTS MINER ON HIS BACK. CANVASTOWN INCIDENT A short and friendly wrestling match with a miner, whom he succeeded in putting on his back, formed an unusual incident in an election tour of the country districts of Marlborough just concluded by Mi’ W. L. Barker, National Party candidate for Wellington East. Mr Barker was accompanied by Mr E. F. Healy, National Party candidate for the Wairau seat. At a meeting in Canvastown Mr Barker'was heckled at first by a section df the audience, many references being made to the speaker’s prowess as a wrestler. “Try to put a head-lock on me” called one interjector. “Not on your life,” replied the speaker; “I’d get an armful of splinters if I did.” General applause followed this sally and the crowd became good humoured. After the meeting the incident described above occurred. Before a meeting of 250 at the Oaio Public; Works Department camp, Mr Barker had a good reception, and, although his views did not coincide with those of many of his hearers, his goodhumoured replies won him a splendid hearing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1938, Page 6
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182POLITICAL WRESTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1938, Page 6
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