ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 10

ELECTION CAMPAIGN.

VOTE-SPLITTING PROBLEM.

DEADLOCK IN DVHEDDT SOUTH

MR. SIDEY ASKED TO STAND. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. In the past few days Mr. T. K. Sidey, M.P. for Dunedin South, has come close to reversing his decision to terminate his long connection with the House of Representatives. Negotiations have been going on to reduce the triangular contest for his seat to a straightout contest, so that the, anti-Labour vote should not be stultified by vote-splitting, and as neither Mr. W. B. Taverner (United) nor Mr. Charles Todd (Reform) would withdraw, attempts were made to get Mr. Sidey to stand once again. In that event Mr. Todd probably would have considered standing down. It may have been Mr. Taverner's reluctance to do so, though it is understood this did not amount to a positive refusal, which decided Mr. Sidey to adhere to his resolve. There are still some who persist in thinking that in default of some other solution of the vote-splitting problem Mr. Sidey may yet emerge and contest his old seat. He is reported to have said that had he known Sir Joseph Ward would be the United party's leader he would not have' retired.