MAJORITY REPRESENTATION.
In New Zealand public attention was long ago directed to the anomaly of minority representatives sitting in Parliament, and Mr. M'Nab took a leading part in educating public opinion .to the necessity of preventing such an anomaly continuing. His Absolute Majority Bill had for its basis the transferable vote, now adopted in South Africa, by which the electors can mark their pre? ference for candidates ifl the order they would desire to see them returned. Voting under this system is extremely siriiple. -It could be mastered by any schoolboy in a few.minutes. Unfortunately New Zealand has not adopted this reform/ preferring for the. present to. exclude the choice of minorities by the clumsy method 1 of . having second ballots. AVe .are not without hope that this will in time be abandoned in favor of the more; scientific and rapid method now under notice. It is not by, any means a novelty, its adaptability having already been proved in many places by actual practice.—“AVellington Times.” 'i' ' " r •’ 4
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2597, 3 September 1909, Page 2
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169MAJORITY REPRESENTATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2597, 3 September 1909, Page 2
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