ELECTORAL REFORM
INQUIRY AS TO PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM IN TASMANIA.
Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, January 29. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, in tho course of a chat with a reporter tonight remarked that in view of the interest being manifested throughout the Dominion at present in_ the question of electoral reform, and in order to obtain first hand and up-to-date information as to tho working of tho proportional voting system in Tasmania, he had instructed Mr F. W. Mansfield, chief electoral officer for New Zealand, to bo present at the recent elections in Tasmania. Mr Mansfield was to have granted him by the Tasmanian Governraentfull access to see the inner workings of tho system, and upon Mr Mansfield’s return to tho Dominion, he will report to tho Hon. Mr Fisher, who hoped that his report will contain much valuable and interesting information.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8341, 30 January 1913, Page 7
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141ELECTORAL REFORM New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8341, 30 January 1913, Page 7
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