ONE-VOTE DEFEAT
THE EIRE GOVERNMENT GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy right DUBLIN, May 9. Tlifi Eire Government was defeated by 64 votes to 63 on the second reading of the Transport Bill. The Government announced that a General Election will bo held. The Transport Bill provided for the incorporation of a new transport company, with a capital not exceeding £20,'000,000, to take over the Great Southern Railway and the Dublin United Transport Company. The Government recently inquired into market transactions in Great Southern Railway shares. Polling day will probably be May 30. The Dublin correspondent of ' The Times ' says that the Opposition parties before the Government's defeat requested the postponement of the Transport Bill because an official inquiry was being held into allegations that a leakage of information about the proposed new company would enable; speculators to_ make huge sums by. investing in railway shares. • [[The state of the parties in the outgoing Eire Parliament was as follows: —Fianna Fail (Government), .67; Fine Gael (General Mulcahy's Party), 32; Labour. 17: farmers' Party, 14; Independents. 8.1 "
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Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 9
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178ONE-VOTE DEFEAT Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 9
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