IN FULL SWING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 9

IN FULL SWING.

FEDERAL CAMPAIGN. Speaker Rejected In Nationalist Selection. •' DARLING DOWNS SEAT. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) * (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Federal election campaign is 5n full swing. The three parties— Nationalists, Country party and 'Labour—have practically completed the selection of their candidates and nominations will close on Monday. A Toowomba message states that the Federal Speaker, Sir Littleton Groom, who refused to exercise his vote to save the Ministry in the critical division in -accordance with the House of Commons' practice, has lost the Nationalist selection' for Darling Downs. Mr. A. C. Morgan, a Brisbane journalist, has been chosen. He stated that lie would stand against all comei s. A Labour man has also been selected. All eves are upon the constituencies where the six deserters from the Government are seeking re-election. Mr. IV. M. Hughes has a formidable opponent in Dr. L. W. Nott. The anti-Labour forces have decided to run opponents against Mr. William Marks and Messrs. E. A. Mann and P. G. Stewart, but no decision has yet been reached in regard to opposing Mr. G. A. .Maxwell. Replying to the criticism of Mr. Hughes at Chatswood, the Prime Minister, 0 Mr. Bruce, last evening, in a speech in th'e same hall, said Mr. Hughes had been trying to wreck the Government for six yea'rs. There was no alternative but to eject him from the Nationalist party. • His only hope of being returned-for North Sydney was with the assistance of the Labour vote, because Labour had studiously refrained from putting one "of its own men against him. In other words, Labour now intended to support the very man it . had turned out some years ago. The Nationalist Executive has decided not to call for nominations for the Ashfield seat, therefore there will "be no endorsed Nationalist candidate, but Mr. A. Pickett has announced that he intends to stand as a Nationalist. Mr. J. Clancy has been selected by the Australian Labour party as the endorsed Labour candidate.