BRITISH ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 180, 27 April 1929, Page 9

BRITISH ELECTIONS

POLLING DAY MAY 30 PARLIAMENT TO PROROGUE ON MAY 10 (British Official Wireless,) ' Rugby, April 24. The Prime Minister announced that Parliament would be prorogued and dissolved on May 10. Nomination day would be May 20, and polling would take place on May 30. CAMPAIGNERS’ NEW METHODS GRAMOPHONE AND WIRELESS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Australiap Press Association. London, April 25. With Mr. Baldwin’s announcement of the date of ,the general election, the campaign may be said to have be"un. It is difficult to realise that within six weeks a new Parliament will have been elected and the answer given to the riddle of the year. Hoardings throughout the country are already plastered with huge posters. The gramophone as well as wireless promises to figure largely. Each party has made, double-sided records containing statements by leaders, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Lloyd George, and Mr. MacDonald, and their supporters. ‘ Some candidates are making records especially for their own constituencies. Thus politics will enter the home to an unprecedented extent. Altogether sixty members of the House of Commons have at present intimated that they are not seeking reelection for various reasons. THE FINANCE BILL Australian Press Assn. —United Service. London, April 25. In the House of Commons the Finance Bill was read a second time without division. •