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Irom any other candidate, and hence the law provides that for 

 such first order quota-excess the determinants of mode dis- 

 tribution are, as in the Fysh surplus — the whole of his own 

 original ballot-papers of the first count. 



For determining; the manner in which quota-excesses of the 

 second order shall be distributed the law is entirely different ; 

 for it excludes altogether the successful candidates' first count 

 ballot-papers as determinants, and restricts the determinant of 

 distribution solely to the total ballot-paper* previously trans- 

 ferred. 



The successful candidates of the second order quota-excesses 

 cannot by this provision — whether desirable or otherwise — have 

 their own first count papers included among the determinants 

 of distribution ; the law clearly confining this function 1o the 

 various subsequently transferred ballot-papers obtained pre- 

 ferentially from other candidates, and by whose aid the quota 

 and its excess were actually obtained. 



I hope this explantion will satisfy all reasonable persons 

 that the various processes of the ballot in Hobart and Laun- 

 ceston were correctly carried out, and were not marred in any 

 way by flaws in the manner in which the whole work was 

 carried out. 



It is interesting to note that Hobart alone had a quota- 

 excess of the first order to distribute, while of quota-excesses 

 of the second order Hobart had three and Launceston only 

 one. 



In conclusion, let me record gratefully, not merely my own 

 personal indebtedness, but that of Tasmania, to the pioneer 

 advocate of True Representation of the People in Australia 

 (Miss C. H. Spence, of Adelaide), whose life's devotion to 

 the cause of True Representation has not only greatly in- 

 fluenced, but has won the admiration and respect of England's 

 greatest statesmen. To Miss Spence's unwearied advocacy, 

 by word and pen, the success of the introduction of the Hare 

 System in Tasmania by Mr. Clark is largely due. I only 

 hope she will live to see throughout the civilized world the 

 general adoption of the Hare System of voting, which alone 

 secures any practical approximation to a Fair and True Repre- 

 sentation of the People. 



