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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN POLLS. PREMIER'S SEAT UNSAFE, United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Received April G. o p.m.) ADELAIDE, April 6. Tlie general elections un South Australia were field yesterday. The counting of tlie votes is necessarily slow owing to the complicated preierentinl voting system. Indications are that the Liberals, which are the Government party, will lose seats, without gains anywhere. Premier Butler's seat J< in jeopardy. Contests occurred in forty-two constituencies, for which there were ninetyfive candidates. All members of . the Assembly and half the members of tho Legislative Council went to the country PRUNING KNIFE IN N.S.W. HEAVY RETRENCHING IN PROGRESS. United Press Assn, by El. Tel- Copyright (Received April 6. 5 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 5. Five hundred workers at the huge Port Kembla iron and steel works have received notice of dismissal. Scores of miners employed at Hoskhi’s local collieries have been reduced to half time. It is stated the reason for retrenchment is the cancellation of orders for steel girders, owing to tlie slackness in the building trade and tin* suspension of railway contracts at Wollongong and Port Kembla. Consequently the industry has received a severe setback. Tlie workers' families are in a panic. ROSEHILL RACES. United Press Assn, by El. Tul. Oopyrighs (Received April G. 11 p.m..< SYDNEY, April G. Nightmarc-h received some hoots after its victory yesterday and a section of tho Sunday press is asking why the stewards have not ordered an inquiry into the horse’s running at Moorefield compared with its form at Rosehip.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11175, 7 April 1930, Page 5
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