DEMOCRAT PARTY
LEADER ON VOTING SYSTEMS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 4. The Democrat Party leader, Sir T. C A Hislop, arrived to-day and was welcomed at the station by a gathering of supporters, for whom Mr J. B. Donald, chairman of the Auckland executive, spoke. . Mr Hislop, in an interview, referred particularly to preferential voting, which he strongly advocated He deplored the fact that Mr C. H. Clinknrd, M.P., had said the time was not opportune to reintroduce his Bill. Mr Forbes had appeared to settle the matter by the old cry of first past the post.” If a question of grave public importance was to be settled by reference to the rules of sport he (Mr Hislop) suggested that the basic rule of racing was that every horse should have a clear run, and if there were too many horses the race should be run in two divisions. The attitude of Messrs Forbes and Savage showed that they did not desire the fullest and truest representation of the people in Parliament, and that they wero hoping to gain seats on a minority vote. It was a ,vain hope. Mr ITislop declared his party would have 80 candidates.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 238, 5 September 1935, Page 2
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