NEW SOUTH WALES POLL.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 2 June 1925, Page 9

NEW SOUTH WALES POLL.

■ ♦ POSITION UNALTERED.

LABOUR confident of

MAJORITY

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(Received Juno Ist, 7.55 a.m.) , ■' ' SYDNEY, Juno Ist. ' Tie counting of absentee and postal T itM has beon commenced. Until this j. Completed the distribution of prefer(jflj votes will not be started. ' Jhe latest figures do not alter the of the Parties. tho Ministers have been re{trned, the seat previously held by Olptoto Chaffey (Minister of Agricul- #«)' being now safe. ; tfr J. T. Lang (Leader of the Labour asserted labour would have seats in Parliament. It had a iplehdid chance of gaining two others. The Party would therefore be in a position to form a Ministry independent of all othor Parties. The "Sydney Morning Herald" fore(Uts that the final result will be:— liabour 46 seats, anti-Labour 44. Th'e "Daily Telegraph" reverses item figures.

'Tho aggregate votes polled show 433,333 anti-Labour and 419,919 Labour.

for the second time in Wagga's hisfojy a flood occurred on polling day. The last instance was in 1891. On Saturday tho waters woro within j few feet of the polling booth. Voting is stated to havo been very light, (mounting to only 25 per cent. At North Wagga the poll was postpbis<L Wagga residents will be able ti vote there as absentee voters.