The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1935.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13108, 16 November 1935, Page 6

The Pahiatua Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1935.

To glance through the- imposing list of nominations for the general elections is to wonder whether too many cooks will not spoil the broth. The competition, in certain instances, ,s almost farcical. It would seem that an enormous number of people are ready and anxious to serve the electors in a Parliament which offers only eighty seats but one is tempted to suggest that the only service that they will ever afford the country will be the payment of £lO. accepted as forfeit money if they do not poll sufficiently well. That £lO, in very many instances, is probably as good as in the State coffers already. For Wellington East there .are six candidates and Air K. Semple, who spoke in Pahiatua last night, is the sitting member. There are as many as five candidates in five ether constituencies and such exuberance is more in evidence in the -North Island than in the South. Yet the number of candidates does not indicate anv change in the number of parties. There are stiff -only two, in actual fact—Nationalist and Labour. As vet the Democrat Party does not exist ill the House but the movement has money behind it. money from the commercial interests. and therefore is able to finance a very large number of candidates who, on those terms, probably accepted nomination, lhe balance of tlie nominees comprise independents of some description or other. If the electors are not deluded by the extravagant promises of some of the Democrats and Independents the election bears a fairly clear-cut issue but once the masses commence to waver with such ait unwieldy range of candidates to choose from vote splitting sets in and the outcome could well he a, chaotic one for New Zealand.