LOCAL ELECTIONS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20413, 7 December 1931, Page 9

LOCAL ELECTIONS.

DEFEAT OF LABOUR. i i MANY STRONGHOLDS LOST, j (Received December 6th, 6 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 6. Municipal and Shire Council elections ■vvero held yesterday throughout New South Wales outside the County of Cumberland, which embraces the metropolitan area, -where polling was postponed by a Labour Government proclamation. Everywhere the results were against Labour candidates, even jn the towns formerly controlled by Labour and in the coalfields districts. Scullin Government supporters and Lang-planners alike were rejected almost universally. Only one small town, Nyngan, thus far reports a Labour success, the Party's representation increasing from three to five, in a six-seat Council. WOOL STOREMEN ON STRIKE. FARMERS WILL LOAD SHIP. (Received December 6th, 6 p.m.) PERTH, December 6. The industrial dispute in the. wool stores resulted in six steamers sailing during the past week without wool cargoes. The pastoralists and the Employers' Association are now organising volunteer labour to take the wool to a ship sailing on December 10th, and if the watcrsiders refuse to handle it farmers will put it on board. PAPUAN NATIVES. MASSACRE CONFIRMED. (Received December 6th, 6 p.m.) "PERTH, December 6. A radio message from Port Moresby confirms the previous rumours that 1 seventeen Natives were massacred in the FJy River district of Papua. A canoe party met the others encamped on the riverside and signed that they wanted to barter for tobacco. They mixed with the campers and women in canoes distributed tomahawks among their men, who attacked the others savagely. A police patrol has gone to the scene.