SYDNEY ELECTIONS.

Northern Advocate, 3 December 1921, Page 5

SYDNEY ELECTIONS.

CIVIC REFORMERS SECURE

MAJORITY OF EIGHT.

(Received 9 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

The final returns of the City Council elections give the Reformers 17 and Labour nine seats.

Three recounts were necessary in .the Lorrl Mayor's ward, 17 votes (Separating the four candidates. A Reformer beat the Laibour candidate by 12 votes, while a second Reformer was onjy five votes behind in third place.

Mr. Lambert stated that, despite the exceptionally strict provisions against, it, there were many cases of personaition. Impersonators were particularly busy in the early polling hours.—A, and N.Z. » A JUBILANT PBESS. LORD MAYOR'S COMMENTS. (Received 10.20 ajn.) SYDNEY, This Day. The anti-Labour Press is jubilant at the result of the city elections, which, they profess to regard as a test of political strength between the Australian, labour Party, as the bosses of the Municipal Council and the State Parliament, and the opponents of that party, and furthermore as an index of the sentiment in a possible State election later on. Summarised Press and, largely, public sentiment is that Labour as represented through its Town Hall majority reaped the overdue harvest of its deserts.

The Lord Mayor, Mr Lambert, attributed Labour's defeat to the Legislative Council rejecting the City Franchise Amendment Bill and to having to fight '' the whole forces of Capitalism and a boycott by a corrupt Press." He added that democracy would not be baulked long of the will of the people. It would see that the obsolete Legislative Council was swept away.—A. and N.Z.