LIBERALS DEFEATED

Hawera Star, Volume L, 30 July 1930, Page 5

LIBERALS DEFEATED

CANADA WANTS CHANGE FIVE MINISTERS LOSE SEATS SURPRISE IN QUEBEC. (United Press Association — By Electric. Telegraph Copyright). OTTAWA, July 211. The defeat of the Liberal Government in the Canadian general election is made clear by the returns available early to-day. Those returns account for the 245 seats and give the following figures:—

Liberals S 3 Conservatives 130 Others 19 Doubtful 7 Both the Liberal leader (Mr W. L. Mackenzie King) and the Conservative leader (Mr R. B. Bennett) were reelected. . , The folloAving Ministers were defeated: — t-,. Mr C. A. Dunning, Minister of finance. . . , Mr L. Cannon, Solicitor-General. Mr C. Rorar, Minister of Railways. Mr W. F. Hay, Minister without portfolio. . . . „ Dr Cyrus Macmillan, Minister or Fisheries. The Conservatives made extensive gains in Quebec and Manitoba and increases in all the provinces except British Columbia, where the Liberals gained four seats in the Vancouver disThe Conservative Party broke into the Liberal province of Quebec, securing 21 seats out of 65, which had formerly been a solid bloc for the Liberals. . Air Bennett, the Conservative leader, claimed that this gave him a majority in the House and he rvould be ready to form a Government next week when called upon by the Governor-General. It is expected that JMr Bennett will be installed within a week with a majority of up to 20 over all the other parties. It was upon the so-called Dunning Budget, which featured British preference, that Mr King appealed to the country, but other issues very noticeably entered the contest, for example unemployment, which was directly responsible for Air Dunning’s defeat. Then for the first time since the days of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Conservatives broke the Liberal hold upon French-Catholic Quebec. All these years the Quebec voters never forgave Canada’s war-time Conservative Unionist Government for enforcing conscription on that province, and the Conservative capture of 20 out of 65 seats there has caused tremendous surprise. In Protestant Ontario the Conservatives won 60 out of S2 seats.