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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 2

. i. Tlio vast scheme of electoral reform .which for so long has occupied^ Parlia- j ment, is a fact accomplished, writes the | London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, and 6,000,000 new Voters have been added to the 8,000,000 who _ until now have controlled the political destinies of this nation, with 6,000,000 of them women. A political revolution has thus been so quietly .effected that its significance is almost wholly undiscerned. Parliament itself rose to tho occasion m the last stages t of the debate by means of a dispute; Between the Peers ajrd the. Commons as I "to. proportional representation and the alternative vote. The debates generally tfero at; an admirable level, and at the last moment the dispute was, settled and the Bill -was saved by a compromise, suggesting a, trial of proportional representation on a limited 6cale, But, however that may result, the factVremains^ that democratic government by denlo-** ci*atie franchise is now for the first time' the potential : possession pf ' the British people. . Many a fortune has been builtV.yp on, a- simple idea, propertly' •protected. But boerjre that ybtrrm volition is properly pMentod~t^hat youi*, i nterosts are. ■^curedf. Information of value' to- every inve-ntbr t will be found m our FREE Book, "Advice to Inventors.'' Write for a copy to-day.— Henry Hughes, Ltd., Patent Attorneys, Featherston Street, Wellington; or F. R. Ball, Peel St., Gisborne. i ...