BY E. L. PIESSE, B.SC, LL.B. 4Q 



1913. 



1900. 



13. T. E. AsHwoRTH and H. P. C. Ashworth. Pro- 

 portional Representation applied to Party Government. 

 A New Electoral System. 



(Melbovrtie, d-c, George Robertson cC' Co. Pro- 

 prietary Ltd., 1900, viii'., 223 pj^., Svo.) 



The elections of 1897 are referred to in Ch. VI. 



14. E. J. Nanson. The Real Value of a Vote and How 

 to Get It at the Coming Federal Elections. 



(J. T. Picken, Printer, Melbourne, 1900, 32 /;/;., 

 Svo.) 



A series of articles reprinted from the Melbourne 

 "Age" and the Melbourne "'Argus."' At pp. 15. 20, 

 the Hare quota, used in the Electoral Act of 1896, is 

 shown to be too high, and the Droop quota is shown to 

 be the true quota. 



1901. 



15. Tasmania: House of Assembly. The Electoral Bill 

 1901 (Bill 5). 



See Introduction. The del^ate on the second reading 

 is reported in the ''Mercury" of October 10. The pro- 

 posal for five seven-member districts was defeated by 

 22 votes to 9 (" Mercury," October 11). The opponents 

 of the system, who were largely country members, used 

 much the same arguments against the Hare system as 

 in 1899. The West Coast districts were said to be in 

 favour of the system, and the Government brought in 

 an amendment proposing that the West Coast should 

 be a five-member district, and that the rest of Tas- 

 mania should be divided into single-member districts 

 ("Mercury," 13 November). Finally on 26th Novem- 

 ber the Government proposed 3o single-member dis- 

 tricts, and this became law (" The Electoral Act, 

 1901 "). 



16. J. G. Davies, Returning OfHcer, Tasmania, and 

 R. M. Johnston, Statistician of Tasmania. Common- 

 wealth of Australia. The Senate. Hare-Clark System of 

 Voting. Laid upon the Table by Command, and ordered 

 to be printed, 13th December, 1901. 8 pp. Fo. 



{In The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Aus- 

 tralia (First Session of the First Parliament). Printed 

 Papers presented to Parliament. Vol. II., Paper 

 No. 46.) 



Statement by Mr. Justice Clark of the causes 

 which led to the introduction of the Hare system 

 in Tasmania (see Introduction). Results of Election 



