QUEENSLAND'S CHOICE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2646, 15 May 1923, Page 5

QUEENSLAND'S CHOICE.

LABOUR VICTORY ASSURED. TWO NEWLY, CREATED SEATS CAPTURED. SYDNEY PRESS COMMENT. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Monday, 9.5 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 14. Mr. Gre?n, deputy-leader of the United Party, was defeated at Townsville. Labour captured both the newlyoreatcd seats in the metropolitan area. There is no further change. u EFFECT IN FINANCIAL CIRCLES. (Received Monday, S.lO p.m.) LONDON, May 14. The " Financial News," in an editorial entitled " Pastoral Leases In Queensland," says: "It is not often that a general election outside England has such direct interest for British investors as that in Queensland. The composition of the new Ministry will affect not merely holders of loans, but shareholders in land and pastoral and mortgage undertakings. The Liberal Party had pledged itself, if returned, to repeal the Labour Government's Repudiation Act, which resulted in Queensland failing to raise a loan in the London market, and being forced to go to the United States. Presumably the repeal of the measure would involve some form of compensation." 1 NOW THE MILLENNIUM ! THE EVIL OF DIVIDED FORCES. SYDNEY, May 14. The " Sydney Morning Herald," commenting on the Queensland elections, says:—" It will be interesting to see how Labour interprets the verdict. If victory is construed into a mandate to go completely Red, and socialise everything, abolish the Governor and the Legislative Assembly, and set up an industrial Soviet, Queensland may yet have done a signal service to Australia. We want to see how the extremists will carry out their revolution. They have blustered and threatened long enough. No check or scruple now restrains them in Brisbane. Now for the millennium ! " The paper adds that the evil wrought is not by the Labour majority in the electorate, but by the wastage of the Nationalist and Country Party strengths against each other. The same fate awaits all Australian Parliaments unless they take a lesson from Queensland. The " Daily Telegraph " says:—. " The victory lay in the fact that the Labour Party is united, while the antiLabour forces are disunited. If Mr. Theodore's prediction that a wave of Labour victories is corning in Australia is not to come true, the anti-So-cialist ranks must be tightly closed up in the future."

The following cablegram was yesterday morning forwarded to Mr. E. G. Theodore, Premier of Queensland, by the New Zealand Labour Party:—■ " Heartiest congratulations on magnificent victory. Tour triumph is an inspiration to Labour in New Zealand. (Signed) T. Brindle (National President), H. E. Holland (chairman, Parliamentary' Labour Party), W. Nash (National Secretary)."