SOUTH AFRICAN POLL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10921, 12 June 1929, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN POLL

ELECTIONS TO-DA'i

PESSIMISTIC ofTLOOK FOR

LABOR

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CAPETOWN

June 11

Pulls in connection with the South African general election will be hold on Wednesday. The campaign is closing with the electoral prospects most difficult to analyse, and the oldest publicists are being puzzled. Difficulties are increased by the new delimitation of constituencies, affecting practically all seats. At the general election in 1924 the South African Party .secured .11 seats with a total of 150,000 votes, Nationalists 63, with 117,000, and Labor, 17 with 52,000. 'lt is believed that Labor, owing to the acute division in its own ranks, will sustain a damaging defeat, not returning more than six members to the new House, which will consist of 148 members. Many even predict the complete obliteration of the Labor Party in its present form. (Australia,n Press Assoaiatlou.) CAPETOWN, Juno 10. General Smuts, in a filial message, appeals for a decisive majority a.s the best means to promote a j-c-gronping o'f parties which will bo regarded as of true economic political interest. A solution of the native problem must he along non-party lines, securing tin* assent of the natives. while maintaining a dominance of Europeans. Colonel Creswoll urges followers to he inspired by the English Labor victorv.