SOUTH AFRICA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 June 1924, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA

EXTRA EDITION.

ANALYSIS OF VOTING. THE FUTURE PREMIER. SY CABXiI —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYMGHT Received June 21, 11.50 a.m. CAPETOWN, June 20. It is now certain that the pact majority will be 29. The four remaining seats cannot affect the result. The state of the parties now is: Nationalists ....' 63 South African Party 53 Labour < .V 18 Independent 1 At the time .of the dissolution the South African Party numbered 71. At a big pact demonstration at Bloemfontein Mr Hertzog was welcomed by Mr Barlow, Labourite, as the future Premier of the Union amidst great applause. Mr Hertzog, ~ replying, thanked the English-speaking supporters of the pact. He said it was his sacred endeavour that they should live together as one united people.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

■ CAPETOWN, June 20. An analysis of the election statistics reveals that the South African Party polled 150,000 votes, against 169,000 for the pact: Thus, while the Nationalists will be the strongest individual party in the new House, the South African Party is the individual party which polled the most votes in the Union as a whole. The returns for 127 contested seats show that, the South African Party polled 36,000 more than the Nationalists, yet hold eight fewer seats. The pact’s strength lies in the Transvaal, Free State and North-west Cape. The South African Party strongholds are the Eastern Province, Cape Peninsula, and Natal.—Reuter.