AN ELECTION PREDICTED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 24, 30 January 1933, Page 10

AN ELECTION PREDICTED

Commenting on the statement made by Mr. Forbes in the House of Representatives on Friday in reference to the raising of the rate of exchange, the Southland "Daily News" says:— "The Prime Minister is probably actuated in publishing a survey of the position by political complicatious in Wellington,/where it would appear everything is -not as favourable for the Government as has been claimed. Five members of the Coalition have asked a sixth to form a city party to counteract the wave of rural aggression. They have come out into the open, and it is certain that others will be heartened to give their opposition articulation. The effect might be to defeat the legislation guaranteeing the banks against loss and the Government would go down with its. important measure. It has for some time been clearly demonstrated that tho Coalition does not hold office by the favour of the House, but by fear of a Labour Administration; that it has. not the confidence of the people was proved during the election, and has become more evident every day since. The members of the House extended their term until 1935, but Mr. Forbes sealed the fate of this unholy alliance when. he assented to the exchange proposals, and it is only a matter of time, probably ten or eleven months, when another appeal to the people will be made. So far as we can see the election will be held a year early instead of a year late. New Zealandersare particularly long-suffering, and submitted to successive sacrifices with good grace; but, this surrender to a group of individuals posing as friends of the farmers has been too much for them, and we believe that a test of popular feeling would show as distinct a desire for a change in the country constituencies a3 in the cities. This is not a matter of town v. country, for the country can see clearly through the hollowness of the scheme." -