THE WESTLAND SEAT.
It is improbable that there will be any contest at the approaching general election over which more feeling will be excited on the part of the rival ( candidates and their respective supporters than there w ! ll be over that between Messrs T. E. Seddon, M.P , and H. L. Michel for the Westland seat. An indication of the extent to which the constituency is already stirred over the conflict is afforded in a telegram published by the "Auckland Star" from its Christ church correspondent, who writes: — "It appears that West Coasters are anticipating that the coming election in Westland will be a bitterly contested one, 'and already there are signs of the intensity of the partisan spirit. A West Coaster who knows the constituency intimately alleges that it is an example of the failure of the female franchise. Since the bye-election, at which Mr T. Seddon was eleet«d to fill his father's place, society in Hokitika and in the other centres of the electorate has rigidly divided itself into two opposing .camps, the Seddonites and 1 the Michelites, which, like the Jews and Samaritans of old, have no dealings with each other."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3001, 25 September 1908, Page 4
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194THE WESTLAND SEAT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3001, 25 September 1908, Page 4
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