BARE MAJORITY COMPAIGN.
- (Per Press * Association.) * . .'.. OHROT(_mTRCH, last night, On . Saturday .-.afternoon Mr ,G. W. Russefi, . M.P., 'receiyedf a deputation who waited on him to enlist his support as member for Avon for abolishing the three-fifths majority on the liquor question. •:.?-.-• ; '. The deputation was introduced by Miss Roberts, who put forward several arguments in'" favor of abolishing the three-fifths majority.. She said that the Democratic League which was being formed pleaded itself 'to vote for : no one but bare-majority .candidates for Parliament. '■''■*: Mr Russell, m Tdply, .said that he was pledged to the electors of Avon to uphold' the three-fifths mfejqrity, and he could not break his pledge.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13102, 16 June 1913, Page 8
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108BARE MAJORITY COMPAIGN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13102, 16 June 1913, Page 8
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