ELECTORAL REFORM.
SIR JOSEPH WARD'S COMMENTS,
(PRESS ASSOCIATION*. TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, .May 26. At the presentation to Mr M. L. Reading, the new.editor of tho "Lyttelton Times," Sir Joseph Ward took tho occasion to allude,to the rumoured amalgamation of the city constituencies. He said it would be nothing short of jerrymandering with the electoral law. He was strongly of the opinion that proportional representation would be just as. good for his party as for any other, but if the party which had temporary control of the country's destiny tried to create discriminative electoral, law, it would be wrong and -improper. There ehould be one system for x town and country alike. Ho believed that such an attempt would be resented by the people more than the Government imagined. The Prime Minister had said ho could give no information, but surely everyone with a right to enrol also had a right to know at the earliest moment what the conditions of the system of voting were to be.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 10
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166ELECTORAL REFORM. Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 27 May 1914, Page 10
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