PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.
It is significant that an, institution formed in Wellington.,-''and calling itself the "Proportional ltcrpesentatio-n League," has suggested that the Government should apply the principle as an experiment to die four cities of the Dominion. We suggest that the Government should lend itself to no sucb> absurd proposition. The cities of New Zealand. liad preferential voting unfT a few yeans back, when it. was wiped out at the request of the very class of.-men who now a&k that it be reinstated. . If proportiona'l representation, is to he adopted, it ■must he applied 'a-niwltaneously to every part of-.the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 4
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99PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 4
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