HOMELAND POLITICS
A LABOUR GAIN. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.— Copyright.) LONDON, February 8. The Battersea by-election, due to Lord Curzon’s succession to the peerage, resulted: — Bennett (Labour) .. . • Shelley (Con.) 1L213 Albie (Liberal) .. • • 2858 Lord Curzon’s (Conservative) majority at the last election was 5217. LABOUR WINS BISHOP AUCKLAND LONDON, February 8. The Bishop Auckland by-election (owing to the death of Mr B. C. Spoor, Labour), resulted in the letuin of Mrs, Hugh Dalton (Labourite), wife of the Commoner, 14,797. A. Curry (Liberal) 7725. H. Thompson (Conservative) 3357. TWO MORE MEMBERS DEAD. LONDON, February 7. The death has occurred of Mr A. W. Dean, M.P., for Holland-with-Bos-ton (Lincolnshire). He was born in 1857. The death has also occurred of Sir Alexander Sprot, Conservative M.P. for Lanark North. He served in several campaigns, and was born in 1853.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 February 1929, Page 7
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