Mauku Election Petition

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 358, 8 March 1918, Page 4

Mauku Election Petition

[ To the Editor]

Sir—Mr Montgomerie's reply to my letter in your issue of February 26th may satisfy him, but does not convince any logical mind why one side should not only break the law, but should profit by so doing, while the other side should lose by conforming to the law. He may clothe the facts with as much sentiment as he pleases but underneath the sentiment the facts remain. Mr Montgomery surely does not for a moment suppose that fathers and mothers with soldier sons at the front were confined to bis supporters. I have several friends and supporters with property in this district who could not record their votes owing to their absence at the front and I have also near relatives in the firing line who have put in three years without a break and gone through tbe hottest of the hot things that the Turks and Huns have dealt out, which I think will serve as a reason for my generous suggestion that providing the regulations would permit I would favour the men, who are fighting for those who stop at home, having two votes as against the home stayers' one, even if some of them voted for Mr Montgomerie. As to the petition and the disclosures due to the enquiry everyone can judge according to his particular leaning and method of reasoning and I am content to leave it at that.— Yours, &c,

JOSEPH HENRY. Patumahoe, 4/3/18.