A GENERAL ELECTION.
NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY. From Our Parliamentary Reporter. Wellington, Sept. 27. Some days ago, after the Prime Minister had stated that he would be prepared to hold a general election if half the members of the House asked for it, Mr. J. Payne (Grey Lynn) prepared a petition for an appeal to the, country this year, and submitted it for the signatures of members. He secured about twenty signatures, but the venture does not seem to have been taken very seriously by anybody. If there is one tliir.g quite certain about Parliament to-day, it is that a majority of the members do not want a general election. Mr. Massey mentioned the subject in the House again on Thursday night. He said that the boundary commissioners would finish their work on Saturday, and then he would be prepared to take an election with the new/ boundaries as soon as the House demanded it. The tone in which he emphasised his reference to the new (boundaries suggested that he anticipated that some of the members who have talked at large about an election would not be pleased with the changes that have been made. Presumably the report: of the commissioners -will be presented to Parliament before the end of the session.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1917, Page 5
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211A GENERAL ELECTION. Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1917, Page 5
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