A QUEER TURN.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXII, Issue 269, 15 November 1928, Page 6

A QUEER TURN.

, THE "BARGA1N SAT.E" PGLTCY Express Special Service. CHRISTCHURCH, Ncv. 15. Tlio Pross, in an Cdit, orini, comj menting 01: the resul! oi' tlie election. says; "Tliere is not mucli lo be gaincd by eonsidering just 11 ow Ihe faci tors in tliis ratlier q'.ieor tUrn in public opiniou. Oue, howcver, wa,s tliat ' well-known political fnvce — tbe ole1 -sire for ohailge — which threatens anv 1 ! Governmoiit that has been long in 1 offiee. A clo.se scrutiny of the pollv ing will bring. to light also what ;. see.ms to be evidence that tlie reeoil > ,of the electorate i'rom Prohibition

has adverselv affected the Reform Party, many of whose candidates had been lpclined to, a Prohibition policy, (ilthough perhaps not inclined to the Prohibition tlieory. It would appeiar, furthermore, tliat Sir Joseph Ws.rd's 'Bargain Slale7 policy, offering millions and millions to be lent to anybody without delay, had a larger effect tha'n could have been expected by those who believed oqr jpebple would be sensible as well a,s deniocratie. Tlie three main parties are rough ly equa.l jn strength, althougli Labor is the lcast strong (in numlbers) of tlie three. The issu e is still what it has been for years — tbe Sociallist challeoge to the modorates —aird the ta.sk beforo _ politicians is tlie intelligent handling oi these facts. No one party can be sqicl to liokl tbe balance of' poiver, because eaieh of them -does."