ELECTION IN THREE WEEKS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 October 1931, Page 5

ELECTION IN THREE WEEKS

PREMIER A LABOUR CANDIDATE. MR SNOWDEN TO RECEIVE A PEERAGE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. Tin the House of Commons it was announced that election day would be October 27th. The new Parliament will probably meet in the third week in - "November. Mr Ramsay MacDonald will de- , finitely 'contesjt Sleaham. In a statement, he said: “I remain a Labour member and fight as a Labour candidate. , ■ Mr J. H. Thomas said he would * fight Derby even though he had to break down the machine he had personally qreated. ' Mr Philip Snowden goes to the House of Lords after the election. MOUSE RECEIVES INFORMATION TAMELY. MEMBERS TROOP TO LOBBIES. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. With the certainty of the impending election, the House of Commons was less than half-rfilled during a lifeless question-time, in which Mr MacDonald, yielding ito Mr A. V. Alexander’s entreaty, told members that the King had granted, the Prime Minister’s request for a dissolution. The announcement was received with' surprising tameness. There were no from the Labour benches. Mem? bers instead Itrooped to the lobbies, arranging to scamper to their constituencies for a short, sharp fight. SEAHAM PROSPECTS CONSIDERED PREMIER MUST BE -ÜBIQUITOUS. - (Received 1 This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 6. It was Mr Thomas who first revealed ithat Mr MacDonald had decided to fight for the Sleaham seat, at which announcement some of the Prime Minister’s admirers were nervous. They think he should have chosen a safe seat, •but it is pointed out that Mr MacDonald is considerably heartened by the reception given him in his constituency last week-end. Optimists suggest that Mr MacDonald’s personal popularity, plus the ■cause he is esppusing, will carry him through; but at the same time it is that he cannot personally devote much time Ito his constituency, because he is not only determined to keep in close touch with financial circles in London, but intends to go to Mr Thomas’s electorate (Derby), also to ',his son Malcolm MacDonald’s, (Basset r < law, Noltts.), to help them in their stiff fights.