TASMANIAN ELECTIONS.
PREMIER'S DISAPPOINTMENT. iTSoccivpci p.m.i liOBAKT. this day. The i-liHtion |)osition is still ohsclire. II is i-xpevted 1 hat checking unci counting absent votes will be romplptrd mi Thursday ami the quotas etruck. The Premier (Kir Walter Leo), interviewed, states tliut the results to date are disappointing. Moderatr electors, alarmed at the possibility nf the Country parly uhtiiining the bulanee nf power, swung over to Labour, whioli whs torn with dissension, and would not have polled so heavily if confronted by n united iliitiSocialist parly. The only course now was to throw the responsibility on the Country pnrty to pay whether it would assist, in maintaining stable government for three years or have a fresh appeal to the rlertnrs in a few months. — lA. and N.Z. CabU.) ■ I
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1922, Page 2
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