STATE ELECTIONS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 11 May 1935, Page 7

STATE ELECTIONS

Voting in Australia To-day

N.S.W. AND QUEENSLAND

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright

SYDNEY, May 10.

After an election campaign notable throughout for its placidity, New South Wales political issues go to the vote to-morrow. Although its most optimistic supporters predict that the Government may even improve its present unprecedented majority of 42 in a House of 90 members, others feel that it may be too much to expect to retain the existing strength.

Tho consensus of opinion seems to bo that Mr B. S. B. Stevens will return with a good working majority. Laug Labour, however, professes itself never more confident of victory as a result of an intensive campaign within the city and the country, assuring workers of higher wages and the abolition pf dole conditions.

Labour organisers declare that ou’y a tun per cent, swing in the voting is required to reinstate Mr J. T. Lang with 5(1 or 52 seats. At the 1932 election the Government parties received 701,847 votes, compared with 598,000 for State and Fede rat Labour. The Lang party hopes at least to retrieve nine Metropolitan and nine country seats which it narrowly lost last time.

Country Party organisers anticipate little or no change in the slate of the parties, declaring that there is no sign of a swing away from tho Government as far as the country is concerned, but rather that dread of Langism is now more evident in all parts of the Slate following the marked recovery of business since Mr Lang's departure from office. QUEENSLAND CONTEST BRISBANE, May 10. A feature of the Queensland election campaign, which culminates in polling to-morrow, has been the assault by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr E. A. Moore, on city seats now held by Labour.

Mr Moore has evolved a childhood endowment scheme under which ho proposes a reduction of 5/- a week in the wages of employees with no dependent children and a bonus of 5/-. a week for workers with three, and 10/- for those with four or more children.

Tho Premier, Mr Forgan Smith, has been taking every opportunity to attempt to prove the scheme actuarily unsound and unworkable,

The present state of the parties is Labour 3,3, Country and National 28 Independent 10.