BALDWIN CHOSEN

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 256, 29 October 1928, Page 7

BALDWIN CHOSEN

Rector Of Glasgow University t After " Great Battle." t t STUDENTS 'HUMMING' CONTEST t t (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, October 28. The Glasgow University rectorial election resulted:— Mr. Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) 1044 Mr. Cunningham Graham (Scottish : Nationalist) 978 Mr.-Herbert Samuel (Liberal) ... 396 Mr; Rosslyn Mitchell (Labour) .. 226 -The women's votes turned the scale in favour of Mr. Baldwin. The after 1 intervention of the Nationalist group 1 gave unexpected interest to the election. ; Sixty thousand rotten eggs, thousands j of cods' heads and other ammunition . were expended by the election combatants who were dressed in blue overalls, . football attire, etc. The women students polled at a booth some distance from the "battle ground." SCOTLAND'S OWN. Significance Of Nationalist Party. NEGLECT AT WESTMINSTER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, October 28. Apart from the usual "ragging," the chief interest in the Glasgow University rectorial election was the fact that the well-known author, Mr. R. B. Cunninghame Graham, who .stood as the Scottish Nationalist, polled within 66 vote 3 of Mr. Baldwin's total. It is stated that the Scottish Nationalists intend to contest future Parliamentary elections in Scotland independently of the three great political parties. ! The party bases its appeal on the j alleged neglect of national interests in Parliament at Westminster.