BRITISH ELECTIONS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 7

BRITISH ELECTIONS

PRIME MINISTER’S ADDRESS. HEARD BY NINE AUDIENCES. .VALUE OF WIRELESS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.—United Service.) LONDON, Feb. 27. Using the latest election device—his speech was broadcast and heard in nino halls in various towns in Lancashire and Cheshire, with audiences totalling 35,000 —Mr Baldwin addressed a meeting in the Free Trades Hall at Manchester to-night. Mr Baldwin lengthily traversed the Labour Party’s policies and declared that nationalisation and socialism were the very negation of the spirit of individual enterprise, and would reduce the people to the level of marionettes dancing to the dictation of the officials’ “dance of death,” so far as national progress was concerned. Mr Baldwin added that, despite some black spots, we were finding more work every year and were regaining our lost markets. Slowly but surely we were making good the losses caused by the war. Mr Baldwin has definitely decided not to reconstruct the Cabinet before the election. LIBERAL CAMPAIGN. MR LLOYD GEORGE’S POLICY. (Australian Press Association.) Received March 1, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 28. . The Liberal election campaign is being opened to-day. Mr Lloyd George will address a great luncheon party at the Connaught Rooms. The party will be attended by peers and members ol the House o| Commons, and candidates and their supporters. Most of the nominated candidates will hear their leader announce the Liberal policy which, it is said, “will not only be dramatic, but will also profoundly affect the course of the general election.” EFFECT OF BETTING DUTY. (Australian Press Association.) Received March I', 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 28. The Daily Telegraph’s lobby correspondent states that >’ie bookmakers’ organisation has decided to discontinue its opposition to Government candidates at the by-elcctions until Mr Winston Churchill announces his betting duty plans in the Budget. The suggestion is that the bookmakers’ campaign will make it difficult for Mr Churchill to make concessions without appearing to capitulate to outside pressure.

LABOUR BILL. (Australian Press Association.—United Service.) Received March 1, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 27. Mr E. Thurtle, Labour member for Shoreditch, in introducing the Clean Politics Bill, admitted that the title was a little ambitious, as one little bill could not cleanse the whole political system. The bill compelled each political party to publish an annual return of subscribers to its funds. Labour were anxious that all the cards should be tabled. If their opponents wanted to know how much Red gold was reecived from Moscow they could co-operate in the discovery. Labour had already issued an annual statement of receipts and expenditure. Mr Thurtle reassured the Liberals that the bill was not restrospective, and did not include what was known as the personal fund. The bill was read a first time.