THE OAMARU ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 27 April 1923, Page 8

THE OAMARU ELECTION

ELECTORS TIRED' OF THE TALKING.

(Bl TBLEORAPH.—SPECIAL TO IHB POST.) OAMARU, This Day. There is not much that is new to report in connection with the election. Plenty of platform talk is being indulged in, but in all this there is a conspicuous absence of discussion of political principles. Both Mr. Lee and Mr. Macpherson concentrate their attention on the validity of the voting papers in the previous election, and the action of the Court in declaring the election void. A wondering public, who follow the discussion, are expgsed to liability of bewilderment. Mr. Lee had 1 eaid. that it was Mr. Macpherson who .asked for a.new election. That Mr. Maopherson, on Tuesday night at Palmerston. characterised as a deliberate misstatement, and he asked if his audience had ever heard of a man lodging a petition to. Ret himself out of Parliament. So the wordy warfare on trivialities goes on, even the Prime Minister has avoided general politics, contending himself with producing a mass of figures andi talking of the finances of the Dominion. Summed up in a few words, little or nothing is being gained by either side by all this talk The minds of the electors are made up, and of converts there are practically none. The general desire is to get the business over, and the approach of polling day is welcomed as promising relief from the flood of words. What the result will be none can say. Both sides are confident, and the only thing that can be said with, confidence is that the majority is likely to be small.