MR MASSEY’S “MAJORITY.”
In predicting a session of Parliament early in March, a Wellington Press Association message to-day says that the Government feels assured of a majority of four, which may be reduced to three by providing a Speaker. This, of course, is quite a misstatement of the position. Mr Massey can see his way through a no-confidence motion, but there he stops, for the. members who are prepared to support him through a want-of-con Science motion are not prepared to support his legislative proposals, and there is no possibility of his carrying on in the present state of the House. The Reform Party to-day has thirty-eight seats, and there are three election petitions to be heard two of them against Reform members Jn a House of eighty Mr Massey’s thirtyeight members are not likely to grow into a working majority, and the prospect of another general election is by no means remote.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16941, 16 January 1923, Page 6
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