MEETING DISTURBED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1938, Page 4

MEETING DISTURBED

» MAN FINED IN AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 11. On a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner at a meeting addressed by Mr W. P. Endean, National candidate for Remuera, a plea of not guilty was entered in the .Magistrates’ Court today by Andrew James Dreaver, whc said he was a member of the Laboui Party. The police said that almost from the moment the candidate began his address Dreaver started calling out “Rot” and “Lies, lies, lies.” A constable warned him, but shortly after Dreaver called out, “You’re a liar.” The chairman called to a constable, “Put that man out,” and this was done by force. Dreaver refused to give his name and address. He had had some drink, but was not drunk. Counsel for the defendant said that after hearing the evidence he would enter a technical plea of guilty. He said the interjections were made under provocation. Dreaver was a war pensioner suffering from neurasthenia, and had been unable to work .for years. The magistrate, Mr C. R. Orr Walker, said that if the defendant had stopped after the warning it would have been in his favour. The defendant was fined £3, with 10s costs, and was allowed two weeks in which to pay.