N.S. WALES ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18050, 27 March 1922, Page 7

N.S. WALES ELECTION.

GAINS FROM LABOUR.

GOVERNMENT FACES DEFEAT,

LOSS OF 10 SEATS UK LEY.

By Tcleufipb—Press Association—Copyright. (Roceited 12.15 a.m.) A. and N.2. SYDNEY, March '-'fi. Polling took place in the New S-.mii \\alps general election yesterday. Late figures to hand to-nigM «how| that the anU Labour parties ha\c gamed fix seats and will probably gain hmr more, whith will give llicn a ii,aj..nM of 10

An incomplete return on lisc hi.-t pie ference votes made this m rining indiea*'the probable election of 3j (VialitionwU. seven Progressives, ;md 40 Labour mem bers. Both the Premier, Mr. .1 Doo(e\, and tlio Leader of the Coalitionists, Sir George Fuller, are safe. Mr. D v. (Coalitionist), the former Speaker, is so far well behind. Mr. J. J. G. McGirr (Lalmur) is leading fur Sydney,

Sir George Fuller staled thi*» morning that he expected that the final poiitii.it in the Assembly would be: Labour 42 anti-Labour 48. Mr. J. Donley decimal to make any comment, as the, figures were incomplete. Mr. W. E. Wearne, Lea/lor of the Progressive wing of the C<iai'ti"n. Ls apparently safe.

Voting in ail liio electorates «;,« '.paw Compulsory enrolment was responsible for 103,595 more electors on the ru'l than at the previous poll.

At (he dissolution cf the Now South Wales Parliament tho Labour and and Labour Parties were of even strength, and whichever party supplied the Speaker was placed in a minority of one. For some time Mr. D. Levy, ;i Nationalist, held the speakership, and thereby gave the Labour Government under Mr. .1 Doolcy its majority. In December last Mr. Lew resigned, and Mr. Dooley. be ing unable to find a member of the Opposition to take his place, had 10 appoint a Labour member to the chair The Guvernment wa.-- thus placed in a minority, and Mr. Dooley at oner re signed. Sir Ooorge Fuller, Leader of the National Party, ihe stiongev of tho two Opposition Partio*. was summoned by tho Governor, accepted the Premiership and succeeded in forming a Coalition Cabinet. His Ministry, however, lasted only one d.iv. He was not defeated on a division, but, antieipal ing defeat, ho resigned after the Governor had refused to accede to his request for a dissolution. Mr. Dooley reformed his Government, the necessary Estimates wore passed, and the dissolution followed.

Despite the hostility of a section of the Progressives Sir George Fuller succeeded in maintaining the coalition cl the National and Progressive parties effected in the emergency, and the two parties, with tho exception of a group of dissentient Progressives, placed before the electors a single anti-Labour policy.