THE RECENT ELECTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 6, 7 December 1931, Page 9

THE RECENT ELECTION.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Now that the recent election is over we can call a halt and take stock. My experience of election results, extending over several years, is that we need not worry over those who did not oxercise the franchise, or did not vote, in our own electorate—approximately, three thousand—for they, like the poor, will be with us always. Various reasons can be assigned for their inaction, there being a certain section who labour under the delusion that they create a sensation among their fellow-beings by taking no part in the contest, or consider that they should be waited upon hand and foot if their vote is required. Only the other day several came along to the booths and insisted upon declaring in detail, outside, how they were deprived of their vote. They took no interest in placing their names on the roll. However, it was a good record when the numbers were recorded, the impression generally being that had the United and Reform gone separately to the hustings, it would have been the stone end ot them, consequently they linked up together. Many predict that internal disruption will prove to be fatal to the future -welfare of the Coalition Government and that it will collapse with its own weight. All that we need now is to await developments. Hence, if they cannot adjust in detail an amicable arrangement in order to get on with the administration of our business, then that is their own funeral. As Mr Poison aptly remarks, we require definite action, not talk, in the near future, in order to save the situation, and it is to be hoped that the Government, as constituted at present, are alive to this phase of the position, if they desire to remain in office. If not, then they can rest assured that they will bo relegated to the past; and will have no one but themselves to blame for being consigned to a state of oblivion.—l remain, etc., H. J. CANTON.