THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 305, 23 December 1914, Page 3

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

\ THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

MR MASSEY AND THE P.OSSIBIL-

ITIES.

Per Press Association,

Wellington, December 23.

Mr Massey, in the course of an interview yesterday, said: “The present position may not be satisfactory to anyone of the parties concerned, but it is decidedly interesting. The ‘Reform’ Party consists of solid forty members, and the other parties all put together make up the same number. That is' tiie position at present, but then?.,are, possibilities. There are several electorates where iecounts are still going on, and in some of them, judging by, appearances, there will be . appeals to the courts by means of election petitions. 1 ntil the re-counts and election petitions are dealt with, no man on earth can tell actually what the, position will be. As soon, as the position of parties is ascertained, the Government will act according to their duties . and responsibilities to the people of the Dominion. There the matter must rest.

A re-count has been asked for in the Bay of Island election, where Mr Vernon Reed a majority of 11 votes.