LABOUR OUT IN QUEENSLAND
Small Majority For
Coalition (N.Z Press Association-Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) BRISBANE, August 4. Queensland’s 750,000 electors have voted into power the State’s first non-Labour Government for 25 years. After one of the toughest and most controversial political campaigns in the history of the State, the Liberal and Country Parties, working as a joint team, defeated 'both Labour parties by a small majority..
The Country Party leader, Mr (i. F. Nicklin, a pineapple farmer, who was re-elected unopposed in his own seat of Landsborough, replaces Mr Vincent Gair as Premier.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28347, 5 August 1957, Page 11
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