THE FEDERAL ELECTION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 235, 17 September 1934, Page 6

THE FEDERAL ELECTION.

There has been, during the last few difficult years, so much in common between the Australian Commonwealth and our own Dominion with regard to afflicting troubles and means taken to overcome them that we here must have very much more than the detached interest of mere onlookers in the result of last Saturday’s Federal election. It will be reassuring to our own Government, and probably to the great majority of the people, to find that, stringent and seemingly oppressive as have been the measures it had to adopt, the Federal Government has had its policy and actions very fully endorsed at the polls. Over there there has been time to realise that, unpalatable as they may have been in the swallowing, the remedies prescribed and administered have proved effective. The electors, though still groaning and grumbling to some extent under the aches and pains of convalescence, have shown themselves quite ready to admit that, after all, the drastic treatment of their political physicians has gone a long way towards accomplishing its promised purpose. It is not often that this is the ease in the world of politics, for an a rule the hardtimes Government, once it has done the unpopular work of reconstruction. is supplanted by one offering more alluring, even if deceptive, prospects. A very substantial majority of the Australian electors have, however, chosen the better course, and have returned to office the Government that has led them out of the wilderness. The figures that arc coining through arc a. little bit confusing, but whatever may be the result of counting the preference votes in districts as yet doubtful the United Australia Party and the United Country Party, which are in fairly general aceord, will command at least a strong working majority in the House.