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CHAPTER IV.


THE task to be undertaken was a long and arduous one, but the Franchise Superintendent brought to it a clear and logical brain, an untiring energy, and an invincible determination. Friends of the movement were corresponded with, literature bearing on the subject was procured from England and America; short and pithy leaflets were written, printed and circulated, and the district and local Unions were urged to take the question up, and to appoint superintendents. Counsel was taken with the veteran Parliamentarian, Mr Alfred Saunders,