GENERAL ELECTION.
* ..■ -' . ,v*\ CHRISTCHURCH SOUTH jlfT.. " No chance in the ~world'," ,,- w«is M* H. G. Ell's reply yesterday to tion a 9 to the possibility of his standing for his old scat, Christohuvch South. "I regard comments on this matter as a personal insult-" .s H© .added that ho had the fullest intention of fighting the Lytteltori seat, as he; had informed Mr H* Holland froaj'j t-h* beginning.
SIR JAMES ALLEN. ' : I have not heard the rumour,” said Sir James Allen, last, night, referring to the common report that ho is in the running for the-lligiis-Com-missionership. “I know nothiugl;£bout the High Commissionership. do not know who is going Jloiue.”*'; “I am a candidate fox'my;it&t, ,! Sir James added. He denied 1 vigorously the rumour that he would not again stand for Bruce. He - pred ictcd-Vim i the session would close at the end of October, and that the election would he held at about the end of iJ theT < first week in December. He expressed a confident belief that the Government would be returned to power. ,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12776, 21 October 1919, Page 5
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175GENERAL ELECTION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12776, 21 October 1919, Page 5
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