FINAL FLUTTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 124, 28 May 1929, Page 7

FINAL FLUTTERS.

APPEALS BY RADIO. Political Leaders' Eve-Of-Poll Speeches. BRITAIN'S DULLEST ELECTION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, May 27. To-night, to-morrow and Wednesday the Broadcast Corporation, will relay throughout the country the final appeals of the party leaders for the support of the electorate, ■which goes to poll on Thursday. Sir John Simon will speak for the Liberals to-night from London. Mr. MacDonaldj who will be in Newcastle to-morrow night, will have an appeal for Labour broadcast from there, and tho Prime Minister on the eve of the poll will be relayed from a Manchester studio. Political clubs and large hotels of London have arrangements made for announcing the results at the earliest moment. Meanwhile, although the candidates and supporters are addressing meetings throughout the country, the general impression is that the contest is the least exciting election within living memory. This is attributed by some, not to lack of general interest, but to the influence of the microphone which is conveying the words of the party leaders direct to the homes of tho electors, and thus reduces the attendance at local political meetings.

ROWDY TORY MEETING

Birkenhead's Threat To Eject Interrupter. CAPITAL AND POLITICS. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, May 27. Although the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, has described the present general election campaign as a very dull one, it is recalled that the Earl of Birkenhead, Mr. L. S. Amery and Sir William Joynson-Hicks havtj had lively passages avMi interrupters at thenmeetings, The first-named threatened personally to throw one interrupter downstairs. In reply to a sneering remark about his pension of S £5000 a year as a former Lord High Chancellor, Lord Birkenhead said: If I give up £30,000 a year and accept office should not I he entitled to a pension? As far as I know lam the only person in the Empire who proposes to give up the pension within three months. One of Mr. Amery's meetings was abandoned owiig to uproar created by anti-vivisectionlsts. Some of Sir William Joynson-Hicks' electors expressed dissatisfaction when he refused to pledge himself to support a bill to prohibit stag-hunting. Tho financial correspondent of the "Morning Post" says there is little doubt that if the Conservatives obtain a working majority at the election on Thursday very large sums will be released for investment which have been held in suspense pending the result of the poll. A certain amount of money kept in the United States will also return to London. The writer goes on to say that the leaders of the Liberal and Labour parties are pledged to policies which are inimical to sound finance. Even if the country were in robust financial health there would be cause for fear if those policies were carried into effect. Therefore it is not surprising, he says, that the dealings on the London Stock Exchange this week have been restricted.

COUNTING THE VOTES. LABOUR'S FATE BY FRIDAY. ("Times" Cables.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. Parliamentary correspondents expect that an excellent idea should be obtainable by Friday morning of whether Labour's offensive has succeeded, as, despite the largely increased electorate, counting in over 200 constituencies in which Labour's effort is expected to be the greatest, will begin immediately polling has ended. This will enable a declaration of the result late at night or early on Friday. Eighteen Ministers, including nine members of Cabinet, are involved in the results thus announced, among them being Sir Austen and Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. Amery, Sir W. Steel-Mait-land, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, and also several Labour leaders. Messrs. Baldwin's, Mac Donald's, Lloyd. George's, Churchill's and Snowden's results will be announced on Friday afternoon when practically all the returns will be known.