LYTTELTON SEAT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20427, 23 December 1931, Page 13

LYTTELTON SEAT.

I THE EDITOR OF THB PRE3S. [t jvas quite appropriate and the part of the United and Parties to recognise the work and Mrs Freeman did in their lr to win Lyttelton from Labtelton has always been recogone of the most radical cones in the Dominion. What rethere would have been if it ve been won. But I think that beyond the power of the Beeven with the help of the •arty. After-dinner speeches are iys the bear; the conviviaj jre very often loosens the »f persons to make statements' rophesy things that they at any ne would not make. It was jht, to acknowledge the great It Airs Freeman had done for previous to the election aniony en electors of the Lyttelton e, but surely thero was no for so much patting of eaei> backs as was indulged in oy ugsttfne, Mr Wright, and Mi ar as Mr Freeman is concerned, re him due praise for hisjMi'and 1 can endorse Mr Livingeulogy when he said that Mr had conducted his campaign in lemauiy manner," and would if he had a pleasing personI a sincerity of conviction, he 'political" knowledge which is rensable to a candidate if he win a seat. One thing stands r and strong among the many tat were said, viz., that at the mat in three years' time Mr would be the member for Lytut I don't think so. If with all ing that Mr Freeman got, and of Mr Forbes, Mr Coates, and ing of forces of the United id the Beform Party the use ■e able to make of the defeat abour Party in Britain,, could t, I do not think there is any (on for this optimism. The the matter is there are only *ee thousand Beformers out welve thousand electors in the i electorate, unless the Be-, !laim all the United voters aa ud even then, with all the tan efforts that were put forDecember 2nd, and for months yi they could not do it. notEctions the Beformerß nave win the seat with novices. «. tinue' on the same lines they e to wait until Doomsday.— '• W. T. THOMAS, on, December 22nd, 1931.