THAT GOVERNMENT FORECAST.
HOPELESSLY OUT OF IT. Tho final result of the elections must be most unsatisfactory to the Government. Speaking yesterday, tho Prime Minister is reported as having said that there was every prospect of tho Government gaining a majority of up to 12. Even allowing for the worst possible disasters at the second ballot the Government must still go back with a majority which will enable them to meet tho House. At the very least the Government must return with a majority of seven, and there was not the slightest possibility of a Government defeat as tho result of tho second ballots. Well, the second ballots are now before us, and, barring accidents, we can see that tho Government's forecast has been hopelessly out of it. Writing after tho final returns of tho first ballot were in, wo suggested that the Government's majority would probably not bo moro than bvo, and might even vanish entirely. That is precisely the position disclosed by the second ballots os now before us.— "Hawke'a Bay Herald."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 6
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174THAT GOVERNMENT FORECAST. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 6
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