The Daily News. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917. THE HAWKE'S BAY ELECTION.
Jt is not likely that the result of the Hawke's Bay election will cause either surprise or enthusiasm. If we regard the two candidates from the point of view of their .respective merits, it is casting no reflection on Mr Simson to say that Sir John Findlay is far and away his superior. That, however, only serves to emphasise the significance of the voting as reflecting the trend of opinion now so plainly manifest that the National Government has been tried and found wanting ~&>aring in mind thefact that Sir Jolln had the whole strength of the Government as his backing, as well as 'the advocacy of Mr. Eraser (who retired from the contest in Sir John's favor), and that there was an understanding that the seat should be held by a Liberal, it stands to reason that the casting of nearly 2200 votes for Mr. Simson and only 2-600 for Sir John Findlay carries with it the inference that the people of Haw-ke's Bay ure at one with the rest of the Dominion in their resentment of the inactivity, dilatoriness and lack of purposeful initiative of the National Government, which has fully demonstrated its inability to grapple with the pressing problems arising out of war 'conditions and has therefore let matters slide. It is distressing to have to make such" a htatement, but it is, unfortunately, only too true. That Sir John Findlay will be an acquisition to the House is certain, and with the ominous lesson of the election fresh in his mind be should be impelled to do his best to press noma the meaning of those 2200 votes in favor of his opponent. The Asquith Ministry was sacrificed for similar failings to those'of the Dominion Government. We have reached the most critical period of our history, and it is high time the pressing problems which have been woefully neglected should meet with prompt and earnest efforts at solution. Mr. Simson has done a public service in emphasising the resentment of the country at the policy of drift which marks the administration of the National Ministry.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1917, Page 4
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