FIFTY YEARS AGO
THE POLITICAL SITUATION An approaching general election "i ,s the subject of a great deal of comment half a century ago, as can bp.seen fvoni the following extract from the New Zealand Hkkald of September 1.. 1887: "it is not at all sur.prisi.'ig thpt the Government and their sujv porters should fee! sadly put out by the divulging in the colony of the fact that the Premier had, i" a letter to the Agent-General, expressed his expectation that the e!ectiou would result in a .Ministerial defeat. Kver since the dissolution they have been striving to persuade t!io electors that the Opposition, because they had the audacity to demonstrate that the Ministry had not the confidence of the Houses were alone responsible for the cost of a second session. But, unexpectedly-, their own guns have been turned upon them, and they now stand convicted before the whole colony of having been guilty of intentional misrepresentation."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 10
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