BRUCE ELECTION
MB. MASSEY’S COMMENT.
WELLINGTON, April 14. With reference to the result of tho Bruce by-election, Mr Massey said: “Naturally, I accept the decision of the electors of Bruce in the same spirit as .if the election had resulted in tho election of the Government candidate. Remembering that at the general election Sir James Allen secured only a */.small majority, it is not surprising that .Mr Edie should have defeated Mr
Begg, a neiv candidate, who, under the circumstances, has put up a splendid fight, and who will in future, I am confident, find his way into the councils of the nation. It is to bo regretted that at by-elections the full voting strength in any constituency is seldom exercised, owing to the absence of party and other interests that are existent at a general election. The question now is as it was at the general election in December last: whether a sound and stable Government shall guide and control the destinies of the Dominion during the difficult period of reconstruction upon which we have entered, and which for several years will have to bo dealt with, and I hope successfully, by those in authority.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1920, Page 3
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