WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
The Representation Bill provides there shall he ninety members, hut only eighty-nine districts, the solitary district returning two members being Wanganui ! No one who is familiar with local politics at Wanganui can doubt for a moment what the object of that exception is, or at whoso instance it was made. No one can help feeling, cither, thai the Government ought to have been far above petty local considerations in framing a great measure of policy for the whole colony. We shall say no more on that point just now ; but we cannot abstain from expressing our sincere regret that Mr Hall should have laid himself open to the imputation of allowing any personal representations from anj- quarter to lead him into such a blunder. — N. Z. Times.
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Patea Mail, 28 August 1880, Page 3
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131WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Patea Mail, 28 August 1880, Page 3
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