AUSTRALIAN ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20366, 21 September 1929, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION.

AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN.

SELECTING THE CANDIDATES.

BRUCE REPLIES TO HUGHES.

(Received September 21, 12.15 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Sept. 20.

The Federal election campaign is in full awing. The threo parties—Nationalists, Country Party and Labour—havo practically completed tho selection of their candidates and nominations will close on Monday. All eyes are upon tho constituencies wherq tho six deserters from tho Government are seeking re-oloction. Mr. W. M. Hughes has a formidable opponent in Dr. L. W. Nott. Tho anti-Labour forces have decided to run opponents against Lieutenant-Com-mander William Marks and Messrs. E A. Mann and P. G. Stewart, but no decision has yet been reached in regard to opposing' Mr. G. A. Maxwell and Sir Littleton Groom.

Replying to the criticism of Mr. Hughes at Chatswood, tho Prime Minister, Mr. Brute, this evening, in a speech in tho same hall, said Mr. Hughes had been trying to wreck tho Government for six years. There was no alternative but to eject him from tho Nationalist Party. His only "hope of being returned for North Sydney was with tho assistance of the Labour vote, becauso Labour had studiously refrained from putting one of its own men against him. In other words, Labour now intended to support the very man it had turned out some years ago.