POLITICAL ARENA
VOTE-SPLITTING ACCUSATION
FLUNG BACK ON GOVERNMENT,
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,
Air G. W. Forbes, M.P. for Hurunni, leader of the United Party, declared in an interview that the charge of vote-splitting made against the party could have no force whatever, because the remedy for such a position was entirely in the hands of the Government. If the Government were sincere in wishing ito avoid' vote : splitting at the elections it was in its power to introduce a measure of electoral reform providing for the preferential system of voting. ‘‘When the Reform Government makes that charge against us,” said Mr Forbes, “it does so with the object, of narrowing down the choice of the electors to its own candidates as against Labour candidates, and that is a position that will not be tolerated. If there is any complaint about the splitting of votes the responsibility must be laid entirely at the door of the Government.”
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Northern Advocate, 22 May 1928, Page 6
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