POLLINGS TO-DAY

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1935, Page 5

POLLINGS TO-DAY

N.S.W. AND QUEENSLAND The Prospects (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 10 .at 9.5 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 10. A feature of the Queensland State election campaign, which culminates in the pollings to-morrow, has been an assault by the Leader of the Opposition. Mr E. A. Moore, on Brisbane city seats, that now are held by Labour men. Mr Moore has also evolved ai chi’fl-hood endowment scheme, under which he proposes to impose a reduction of 5s per week upon the wages of a'l employees with no dependent children, and to pay a bonus of 5s weekly for workers with three child-* icn, and of 10s per week for those with four or more children. The Premier, Mr Forgan Smith, has been taking every opportunity to attempt to prove that the Opposition Leader’s scheme is actuarially unsound and is unworkable. The present state of QueenslasJ panics is: — Labour 33 Country 28 National , 28 Independent 1 N.S.W. Government EXPECT VICTORY. LANGITES HOPEFUL. (Received May 10. at 9.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 10. After an election campaign notable throughout for its placidity, New South Wales political issues go to a vote to-morrow. Although, its mo*<t optimistic supporters predict that the Government may even improve on its present unprecedented majority of forty-two in a House of ninety members, others feel that it may be tcc much to expect the Government to retain the existing strength.

The consensus of opinion seem' to be that Mr Stevens will be returned with a good working majority.

The Lang Labour Party, howeve*, professes itself never to have been more confident of victory, as the result of an intensive campaign, in the etiy and the country, such victory assuring workers of higher wages and of the abolition of the dole conditions.

The Labour organisers declare that only ten per cent, of a swing of the voting is required to reinstate Mr Lang with 50 or 52 seats. At the 1932 elections, the Government parties received 701.84 7 votes, as compared with 598 thousand votes for the State and Federal Labour candidates.

Mr Lang's party hopes at least to retrieve nine Metropolitan and nine country seats, which seats it lost last time only by narrow margins. The Country Party’s organisers anticipate there will be little or no change in the state of the parties, declaring that there is no sign of any swing a wav from the Government as far as the country is concerned, but rather that a dread of Langism is now more evident in all parts of the State, following a marked recovery in business since Mr Lang’s departure from office.