POLLING DATE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 119, 22 May 1945, Page 5

POLLING DATE

GOVERNING FACTORS

Provision For Voting Of Service

Personnel

N.Z. Press Association— Copyright Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, May 21

"The Labour party's reply to Mr. Churchill makes a July election virtually certain," says The Times Parliamentary correspondent. It now rests with Mr. Churchill to decide the date of the election and to advise the King to dissolve Parliament. July 6 is generally thought to be the date that will be chosen. In that event the promised three weeks' notice of dissolution must be giverf within the next two to three days. If the alternative date July 11, is chosen, the notice of dissolution could awa.it Parlament's reassembly on May 29. "Labour members of the Government are expected to withdraw immediately the notice of dissolution is given, obliging Mr. Churchill to form a 'caretaker Government. In this he will have the support-of the Liberal Nationals as is indicated by the letter from Mn Ernest Brown, Minister of Health. The Press Association lobby correspondent says that, if Mr. Churchill's suggestion were adopted 01 holding a referendum on whether the coalition should continue some close observers are convinced that the country, by a big majority, would support the coalition's continuance Strong feeling exists, in many Places that. this fs not the time for election distraction..