THE OAMARU ELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 5 May 1923, Page 14

THE OAMARU ELECTION.

(Tn llf l-.illtor.l Sir,—The Right Hon. the Prime Minister describes the election result* us of no political significance, purely :i sympathy vote. If the Onnukrn election was purely jympathetic, how about TiuiranjjaV Does it not strike that <-riii<- tlint llu- Tanransti vote was purely sympathetic with Mr. Herrie*. who li'ml' ilUtriliutiil hi* money in his electorate. Voters must have felt that it winilil have lieen unsympathetic kiii) ungrateful not to recognise his polititii] iiml petimiiiry influenne. It miiy lie said tlmt liotli elections wore cyiiipntlietit- in the snmc degree. hut Mr. Miisscy pnnsoli , .* liiniself ■n-itii the view thni he hail never known a single instan-p when an election vva.= up.~et.' where the sent li.v liei-n taken from the man wlm was ilei-lared elected at thri fciiriiil eleiticin. mii.l yet with this knowledge he cli<l his hest to try and oust Jlr. Masters :il Strntfuril. If h< ■Was so sure of Mr. Macpherson winnins ■wliy did lie not tell Mr. Lee to sit ilowr and (lo nothing. Uμ snit< his views ti the results when tl umhers are up. It A\-ouhl he far l.'elter tn say. "We havi hern fairly defeated iii.i wltlwtiimliim mi herculean efl'orts." The Waterlon ol .ißeforni is at hand. It would ln> interest Ing to know who pays for these ele? tioneai-iii": etunte— the (rovernincnt l>c tween" them, .iv the country.-—1 am etc SATISFIED.