BLOW TO COMMUNISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20254, 14 May 1929, Page 9

BLOW TO COMMUNISM.

QUEENSLAND DEFEAT

UNIQUE IN AUSTRALIA.

LABOUR'S BAD RECORD.

OPPONENTS' MAJORITY.

'A PROBABLE INCREASE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received May 13, 8.15 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 13.

It is now regarded as certain that the nnti-Labour forces in the new Queensland Parliament will have a majority of 21. Prominent Labour officials say that two more Ministers, Mr. J. Stopford, Home Secretary, and Mr. M. J. Ivirwan, Minister of Works, are certain to be defeated at Mount Morgan and Brisbane respectively.

The Premier, Mr. William McCormack, attributes his smashing defeat to the general desire for a change of Government, to the promise of the Oppositions to find employment for 10,000 unemployed, and to the Government's hostile attitude toward the railwaymen's and waterside workers' strikes some time ago. Disinterested judges, however, say the 'defeat of Labour was due to its general mismanagement and its failure to solve the unemployment problem; also to the stagnation of industry generally. The Parliamentary Committee of the Federal Country Party says 14 years of State Communism in Queensland has ended with the most remarkable defeat in the history of Australian politics.

The leader of the Count ry-Progressive-Nationalist Party, Mr Arthur Edward Moore, who will be the next Premier of Queensland, is a New Zealander by birth. He is a son of Mr. Edward Moore, general manager of the Union Bank, Melbourne and London, and was born at Napier on February 9, 1876. He was educated at Akaroa and Melbourne Grammar School. He was 11 years old . when he accompanied his parents to Australia. In his youth he settled in the Gouiburn Valley, a fertile district of Victoria, and there cultivated the vine. Having gamed valuable agricultural experience as a grower in the •wine industry, Mr. Moore turned his attention to other avenues of primary production, and eventually decided to move northward. So in 1897 he set out for Queensland, and pitched his tents and herds on the plains near Jondaryan, there engaging in the dairying industry. In due time Mr. Moore realised his business ambitions. He became the owner of two cheese factories. At length the desire to serve the public in the local government arena came upon him, and he entered the Rosalie Shire Council. He attained the chair and at a later period occupied high office in the Local Authorities' Association. Public confidence in his ability and integrity was more amply demonstrated in 1915, when he was elected to be a member of the 20th Parliament of Queensland. Since then he has been regularly returned for the Aubigny seat. Mr. Moore's reputation for stability find his genial nature have aided his advance in the House, and each step upward has served to illustrate the possession of a well-balanced mind. For a time lie acted" as deputy-leader of the Country Party, and in July, 1923, just before the opening,:of Parliament, the member for Aubigny obtained the leadership of the party. "Then his opportunity came, and he did not allow it to pass. Taking his duties seriously, he attended scrupulously to the demands of his office. To-day Mr. Motire is in command of the Opposition which defeated the Labour Government. at, ; the election on Saturday.