N.S.W. BY ELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7

N.S.W. BY ELECTION.

Labour Preference Votes Give Win to Country Party. NATIONALISTS BEATEN. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The State by-election for Upper Hunter resulted in a win for Mr. Malcolm Brown (Independent Country party). Mr. A. McMullen (Nationalist) polled over 1100 more primary votes than did Mr. Brown, but the latter secured 90 per cent of the second preference votes cast for the Labour candidate, Mr. Foreyth. The by-election was rendered necessary by the death of Mr. Cameron (Nationalist), who had a majority over the Labour candidate of 1521 at the last election. The final figures of yesterday's poll were as follow:— Mr. Brown U"d., Country party) 5922 Mr. McMullen (Nationalist) .... 5494 Majority 428 TIMBER FROM RUSSIA. PROTESTS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, June 18. A storm of protest has arisen with regard to the arrival of a huge shipment of° timber from a Russian port by the King Lud, the Sydney portion of which was sold, before arrival. The Timber Merchants' Association has .appealed to the Government to "arrest the dumping of Soviet slave-produced timber," on the o-round that locally milled timber is unable to compete with it. The Federal authorities are now making inquiries.