FEDERAL ELECTIONS
MR HUGHES' PREDICTION. 4STOTHER FOIX WITHIN A YEAR.
SYDNEY, June 9. fhe Federal writs must be returned on July 1. At the present rate of counting it looks as if many returns will not be complete at that date. Excepting that Mr McColl (Liberal candidate for the Senate) has gone into the second place in Victoria, the positions are practically unchanged. Mr Hughes (Attorney-General) predicts another election within 12 months. .(The counting of absentee votes has not yet been finished in a single electorate.
In some of the electorates only a few hundred votes remain to be counted, •while in others several thousands still have to be dealt with. Mr Hughes declared that had the known Labour supporters who did not vote gone to the poll they would have been sufficient to carry the Referenda. Labour had taken the elections too easily. The Victorian Temperance Alliance has decided t-o make no-license the battle-cry of the 1917 election, and meantime will eDgage in educative work.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 137, 10 June 1913, Page 5
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