THE MINORITY VOTES.
• '''WHAT; HAJPENEpaN' MANAWATU;;■'' ' ■ : ■ TYitli' respect, .:■ to- the'-..expectation.-of .'the Government the , , votes' given , 'to * Messrs.! Mel'drnm, ,Georgetti : and -HornUow will: gp : to Mr;.. Smith- the "Manawatu Evening, Standard" ha 3 the. following interesting note-.— .'' ■':' : ' As; a 'matter ; of,-fact,' the Government'have. 'gpod' r dause.td'-be f hfraid , .of-the Second ballot in Bangitik'ei;.for| they have a-.good recollection• of i)vhat occurred '.in ; Manawatu; at the' general election.' It'..will be remembered that: at: the first Ixillot Mr.Newman.dpfoatefl Mr. Stevens by 315: votes; .but Ministers, and their 'jqurhala made- ; th*.grievous efrpr of'reokoriing that:the votes' .cast 'for .the'*other Liberal candidates (Messrs.-iGaiviner'and'Frankland) totalling 589 would be Mr; Stevens', favour, and' that the latter would..in,,consequence Kave a' comftirtable , win. : : Ae ; a matter, of .fact, more' than: -sufficient.-'of /thefe , -. votes went -.td ; '-Mri Newman, whose'majority at the 6econd-,ballot was'increased,'frpin 315,t0 581.' With these facts stanng. them;-in'the face, . Ministers' are!not" fesliig as comfortable, as their claqueurs would have'.us believe, 'and they intend to spare no effurt to secure evory available vote, for their, recently chosen candidate." .r ■v. '■;■'.■'•;:'
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 8
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169THE MINORITY VOTES. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 618, 22 September 1909, Page 8
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