A CHRISTCHURCH ELECTION.
fcjUßOmt CAJTOIDATE RETURNED. • BEFOBM PARTY FAH/tSJLES. :.i?y. own Correspondent.) • ■■■•:■,'. GHBISTGHnROH, Thursday. ' *Tfit-Gity Council by-election, is made mteresting-lythe. triumph of the official labour candidate, who secured an'absolute awjorihr. over his two opponents on : Uismall poIL Sydenham is 'a Labour ttranfchold, and there are prophets who ?? J&Jxvxr -vrill capture it at the fiettgEeral "election. In -the last Christehnr<A South contest the Hon B. G. El] *«e:»n-*aSr!y close by a Labonr candiEfl. -will be a hard man to ■itaftin his own country, but it may m saia pretty that Christis to be the first 1 Labour '*?£ iM-Gan-terbury. Tie Citizens' Abso:<aitiMi, vhich at election time is really *loialorganisation of the Reform party, *»s.;Sostainea another bad defeat over jn fact,..it has never yet wAea a winner. It. selected Mr. C. **m as as-oaafliaatje-oa this occasion, f n \* ?pSe-of: the fapt that he -was
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 148, 21 June 1912, Page 7
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141A CHRISTCHURCH ELECTION. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 148, 21 June 1912, Page 7
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