56 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, 



R.S. TAS. 



tained in Appendix 5 to this bibliography. The debate 

 at the conference is reported in the Hobart " Daily- 

 Post " of 28th June, 1912, and the rules are explained 

 by Mr. Newham Waterworth in an article in this paper 

 of 20th August, 1912. 



See 38 for a discussion of this system. 



1913. 



35. E. L. PiESSE, Proportional Kepresentation. The 

 French Party-List System applied to Tasmania. Keprinted 

 from the " Mercury/' Hobart, 5th February, 1913. 



(Hohart: ''Mercury'' Office. 1913, 6 pp., Long 

 Svo.J 



36. [A Correspondent.] Proportional Representation: 

 Some Practical Defects. 



(Ifi ''The Times," London, 19th March, 1913.) 



A statement of some defects which have appeared in 



the results of the elections held under the Electoral 

 Act of 1907. 



37. J. H. H. [John H. Humphreys]. Tasmania. A New 

 General Election. The Working of the Transferable Vote. 



(In Representation. The Journal of the Propor- 

 tional Representation Society. Sixth Year, 1913, No. 

 27, April, 1913, pp. 6-13.) 



A discussion of the General Election of 23rd January, 

 1913, and of criticisms of the working of the transfer- 

 able vote. 



38. E. L. Piesse. The Theory of the Quota in Pro- 

 portional Representation, 11. 



(In Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Tasmania, 1913, pp. 15-37. Also issued as a pam- 

 phlet by Electoral Department, Tasmania, 8vo.) 



A continuation from Part I. (33). 54-60. List Sys- 

 tems: M. Sainte-Lague's discussion, by the method of 

 least squares, of the problem of partitioning seats. 61. 

 References to French and Belgian writers. 62-65. The 

 method of the uniform quota, with an illustration based 

 on the General Election of 23rd January, 1913. 66-70. 

 Multiple transferable vote systems. 72. Statistics of 

 close contests. 73-77. Disproportionate representation 

 in single-member constituencies. 



