BRITISH ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 8

BRITISH ELECTIONS

FUNDS FOR MINERS’ CANDIDATES

(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 11. As a result of the depression in the coal mining industry, the Miners’ Federation has been faced with the question of providing adequate funds to enable it to have a sufficient number of Parliamentary candidates at the coming general election. The federation at a meeting today, however, decided to run the same number of candidates as last time, and in order to meet the expenditure adopted a scheme whereby the political fund is to be readjusted so that the richer districts will contribute to the support of poorer districts. Members of Parliament representing miners have agreed on a voluntary reduction of their allowance from the federation. FIVE BY-ELECTIONS PENDING (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, January 11. By the death last night of Earl Howe, aged 67, and the succession and elevation to the House of Lords of his only son, Viscount Curzon, the Unionist member of Parliament for South Battersea, a by-election will be necessary in that constituency. Five by-elections are now pending, one caused by the appointment of Sir Malcolm Macnaghton, member for Londonderry, to be Judge of the King’s Benell division, and others by the deaths of the members for Wansbeck, North Midlothian, and tlie Bishop Auckland divisions.