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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1925, Page 2

\N inlOre-tillg 1 »h:l Vi- oi till' general ■lcctinti nmv going forward is the linin' mi tlm putt ill tin- Labor following li st’i' vote splitting in tlm several eon.tituvncies made as general as possible, tnr Wellington correspondent referred ~ the matter when mentioning tlm •hanrin of the I.abor candidate fur the Mutt seat at the fact- that the Itefnrin party was not putting np a candidate leaiust the sitting member. All 1 W iljord. Mr Wilford is a sick man. find not. able to enter the lists; indeed lie is leaving on a health trip and would he away ere Ibis but lor I lie feanicn’s strike. The Reform party, however, is playing the game, under the eireutnst a lives, and "ill not oppose Mr AVi I - lord’s re-election, which Mr Nash' seems to believe "ill be a foregone enn-In-ion. There are other constituencies about which l.ahor is concerned, at the r.b-euce r.f vote splitting on tliii occasion. Westland is an electorate about which the Labor party is perturbed greatly because there is not a third candidate in the lists. And it i>. not "ithciu't asking, that it is so. It i- understood that both in Lrcyimmlh and Hokitika, possible eandi,bites have been a] proaclmd t" enter the lists as Independent candidates. Tlm uhiert cf such entry would he Vote splitting to the advantage of labor. It "ill he recalled that it w„s the vote splitting three years ago which permitted the sitting member to win the .seat. Oil that oeeastcii Mr O'Brien polled tit)•_’(> out of a total ))01l of 70? o. so there was practically .V.KHI votes east a; ;mi-t the sitting member. 'I hat was an instance ef how vote splitting works, and it is mu unlikely that the lesson has been taken to heart. Such being the ease it will not he surprising to find chagrin creeping into the rank' of I.abor Imre as in the Mud electorate. Tlm electoral mil for Westland "ill he larger < a ibis orilinii h>nm i rlv. ;im<l no doubt well over eight thousand votes " ill be re. oi-.h d. The urgeia v for vote split-ji-oju ;i | ••! mi p tint "1 viYw. is. ;i<ij !»• oirpt biui_c if " itltiii idr* ,v_ I<*d;i.v> tin- «•!** 't" t<; dix-o’ici ■ • ibird o:it; lidul • u lU'unt m wv\\u “ liimselt in the interest - ol I ah.ir " ill 1 ■ redoubl'd. With the position so | ai- ,. 111 1 evident any third e.indidate entering the lisp- imii can do so only uith the avowed object o| rendering all possible la l|< t" habom