AN ELECTION PROSPECT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 4

AN ELECTION PROSPECT

Mr. Massey states that there is a possibility of an election very soon in New Zealand. He supports this statement with only vague reasons ; but, while the Government )s kept in office by the votes of three members 'who are not Beformers, it is safe to say that there.is always a possibility of defeat leading' to a dissolution. One unfavourable by-election would reduce the Government majority to a single vote, and two such elections would convert the majority into a minority, btill, with good management and good luck, the election possibility may. not become a .(probability. or a certainty. There is, however, ■ one certainty—that if the eleefcipn were, to take place in a few months the Labour Party alone would be prepared for it. Labour's election .campaigns f )ast, three .years, : As soon as one-election.:is'over' the party begins to. prepare for the next. v Politics, in the Labour view are a subject in which the public should always be interested. This •is .a wise view to: take, and it would tie to the advantage- of-the country rf -the Reform and Liberal Parties were!'of the same mind. Party warfare 'not be spread over three years, but the discussion of public issues , should.. certainly - not be left to 'within a week or so of the issue of election writs'. Abo^e ail, _ the moderate parties should decide quickly what is to be their attitude towards each other .Will they- p erm it, personal . d i ffereilces to separate them, to the dismay of their, supporters and -the delight, of their common opponents? ' -"