PAID PATRIOTS.
A RUSH OF ASPIRANTS
LONDON, July 22
The passage of the Payment of Members Bill has had the result that the number of political aspirants will be vastly increased.
Though the Independent Laborites,' who are only eight in number, rather scorned the proposal, they havfe just approvedof 15 fresh candidates in the interests of their party, and seven more are to be selected for constituencies suppcfid to support their principles. This, decision of the Independent Laborites chiefly concerns the sitting Liberals, whose margins over the Conservative candidates at the last election were so narrow that triangular contests would be attended with great xisk to them.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 29 July 1911, Page 10
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107PAID PATRIOTS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 29 July 1911, Page 10
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