ELECTION EXPENSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 7

ELECTION EXPENSES.

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RUGBY, April 23.

The House of Commons to-day continued the committee stage of the bill votes to women on equal terms with men. By 220 votes to 71 it accepted a new clause moved by Mr. Arthur Henderson (Lab., Burnley), reducing the maximum scale of candidate's election expenses from Td, as <it present allowed for each elector in the counties, and 3d in the boroughs to *Jd and 4d respectively. Supporters of the clause were unaulrnous that in view of the increase ■>( the electorate of 5.000,000 women, the expenditure allowed to candidates should not be so increased as to hamper a man of small means.

In leaving this matter to the frca Tote of the House Sir Wm. JoynsouHicks. Home Secretary, gave figures from the general election of 1924 which showed that successful candidates then spent on an average 4.3 pence per head of electorate in London boroughs; 3.41 pence in other English borough and ~».2» pence in English counties. In the Scovtish boroughs the exjtenditure was very much smaller, being *2id is: the boroughs and 4.8 i jience in the counties.