GENERAL ELECTION.
MR SAVAGE'S VIEW
WELLINGTON, Dec. 7
In reply to a question, Mr Savage expressed the opinion that a general election in Great Britain over the crisis was unthinkable. "Why," he said, "both sides would be discussing tho same policy and such a. position would be farcical, and merely nothing better than political confusion. Let us hope the British Throne will never become the shuttlecock in a political fight." It is gathered in Parliamentary circles that whatever may be the outcome of the constitutional crisis at Home there will be no necessity for a general election in New Zealand or any other self-governing Dominion. "I would say the latest indications suggest that the situation is less difficult. Of coarse, the decision at the moment rests with the King and until that is known nothing more can be said. When the time comes for it the New Zealand Government will make a statement about the question as a whole and its attitude towards a difficult and very delicate question."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 8, 8 December 1936, Page 7
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