ELECTORAL REFORM.
There is one. matter which Parliament should attend to at the earliest possible moment. That is the question of electoral reform. The present system is almost as antiquated and cumibroxis a,s it could possibly be. The second ballot is an expensive fraud upon the electorates, and has no jusiificaition for its existence. Propor- ( itional representation' may not be all that is claimed for it, but it,would be a poor thing indeed if it were not an: Improvement upon the existing system. There are a great many people who are of opinion that proportional j representation should be given a tiriaJ. j
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19120401.2.13
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10597, 1 April 1912, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103ELECTORAL REFORM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10597, 1 April 1912, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in