FEDERAL ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20375, 2 October 1929, Page 11

FEDERAL ELECTION.

NOMINATIONS CLOSED.

ELEVENTH-HOUR SURPRISES.

NUMEROUS INDEPENDENTS.

PROMINENT MEN OPPOSED.

(Received October 1. 0.25 n.m.) SYDNEY. Oct. 1. Nominations for (he general election for the Federal House of Representatives closed to-day. There were many eleventhhour surprises. Tho whole of the six deserters from tlio Ministerial Party, Messrs. \V. M. Hughes, W. M. Marks, E. A. Mann, G. A. Maxwell, P. G. Stewart, and Sir Lyttleton Groom, have strong opponents. In tlio North Sydney constituency, where Mr. Hughes and Dr. L. W. Nott are seeking the anti-I;at>oui* votes, two additional candidate! have l>een nominated, namely, Mr. Judd, leader of the Socialist Party, arid Mr. iianko, who describes himself as , .an . Independent Labour candidate. Neither of them is expected to poll more than a handful of votes. The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, has two opponents for the Flinders (Victoria) scat. They are Messrs. llolloway, official Labour candidate, and Birch, unofficial Labour candidate. The nominations aro noteworthy for the number of independents and unendorsed Nationalist and Labour candidates. This election, which is causing tremendous interest and personal feeling, has brought forward many rnoro aspirants than it was expected to do.

DRAMATIC INCIDENT. MR. BRUCE AT HOBART. DUBBED A "SPLENDID FAILURE." * HOBART. Oct. 1. An election meeting which had been addressed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, at the Hobart Town Hall ended in a dramatic fashion. When questions were invited a man in clerical garb stood up in the front of the hall and demanded to bo allowed to address the meeting from the platform. " I am Father Graham," he shouted to the crowd. When his request was refuged he called for cheers for Mr. J. H. Scullin. Leader of the Labour Party Then the interrupter shouted to Mr. Bruce: "Good-bye, you splendid failure," and strode theatrically from the hall. The meeting concluded with booting and counter-cheers.

ELECTORS IN ENGLAND. ONLY ONE WAY TO VOTE. "FLY HOME IN AEROPLANE." LONDON. Sept. 24. "Hire -an aeroplane and fly home." This is officially suggested as the only way in which Australians at present in England can vote at the elections on October 12. Half a dozen of them applied at Australia llouso for information and found that they must apply to the returning officer in Australia for a form, await his reply and fill in and return the form' prior to tho polling. This would take months. Even with an aeroplane making the three trips, it could not be done in one month. Australians here are unable to vote at ordinary elections owing to the short time between the nominations and the polling, and there is no way of voting by cable. Non-voters' absence from Australia, however, is accepted as sufficient excuse.