GENERAL ELECTION.
• MR SAVAGE’S ASSURANCE. ACCORDING TO POLICY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 10. “There will be a general election next year,” declared the Prime Minister (lit. Hon. M. J. Savage) in a statement issued to-night in reply to a .Christchurch criticism of remarks lie made last week on the subject of the life of Parliament. “The Labour Party objected to the Coalition Government’s extension of the normal life of the last Parliament by one vear,” said Mr Savage. “It objected also to the extension being made statutorily permanent and to the methods by which the extension was made in defiance of public opinion against any chango in the law. The Labour Government now objects to the perpetuation of the four-year Parliamentary t€ ™he present law will be repealed this year. Jf in future there should he anv suggestion about another alteration the consent of the people must first be obtained before any further cha.nge is made by a Labour Government.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 11
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161GENERAL ELECTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 11
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