DEMOCRATIC LABOUR’S CLAIM
“Make no mistake about it; your Labour condidate is already out,” declared Warrant-Officer A. E. Allen, Democratic Soldier Labour candidate for Hamilton amid applause while addressing a small but friendly audience in St. George’s Hall, Frankton, last night. “The issue is between the National candidate and me,” he added. Mr Allen said that his party had been accused of vote-splitting, but he considered it would bring about the same political landslide as had occurred in 1935. The present Government had not the “nerve” to bring in the preferential system as it knew that such votes would be cast for the speaker’s party. He added that they could not be “bought out” and even in the unlikelihood of their not attaining the Treasury Benches they “would land in the House fair in the centre of the see-saw.” Mr Allen said that at a conservative estimate 80 per cent of the soldiers serving overseas were behind Mr Lee (more applause).
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22137, 8 September 1943, Page 6
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