HOW LABOUR FARED

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2587, 3 December 1931, Page 4

HOW LABOUR FARED

Mr Harry Holland led an Official Opposition Party of 20 members in the 4ate Parliament. He \vill appear in the new House, with a following of 24. He lost Mr Lep Martin, but gained Messrs Lot*, Schramm, Junes Coleman, and Richards. Tire cities remained faithful to .Socialism. Tn fact the special feature of the total results of all the contests was the emphatic line* of cleavage of Town v Country. The men on tiro land, the producing interests, soot back to the House men pledged to the Coalition policy of carrying on the government of the Dominion a. business houses and industries have to carry on—along lines that meet the economic stress and strain of flic times. Tlie Socialists in the cities and big towns had the support yesterday of a disgruntled Civil Service the members of which really should he thankful that they are in tlieir job s and not being compulsorily rationed to three days’ work, per week. But. after all. the outstanding’ lesson of the contests yesterday is that the election* need not have 1 epn held, for the composition, of parties in the House is very much as it was previously. There are certainly losses and gains in the several parties, hut the previous House had as good a working majority for the Government Perhaps the new Hops** has gained more solid strength in the opposition.