N.S. WALES ELECTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18515, 28 March 1922, Page 5

N.S. WALES ELECTIONS

A COALITION VICTORY. NEWSPAPER CRITICISM. ME M'GIRR'S BANEFUL INFLUENCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 27. Further figures do not materially affect the state of the poll, but surprises are anticipated when the preference votes are allotted. Coalition success is assured, but the size of the majority is matter for speculation. The Herald says; “It looks as if the Coalition will gain five or more seats from Labour. Mr M‘Girr has probably been Labour’s most baneful influence. Though he won his own seat in Sydney, the evidences of the ruin which he wrought are strewn all over the country. The Government rightly deserved its fate.” The Telegraph says: “The uprising of the electors is as noticeable in the country as it is in the industrial centres and the suburbs* of the metropolis. The verdict is one against bribery and extravagance, and against the most reckless and incompetent Administration that ever ruled the State.” STATE OP PARTIES UNCHANGED. COUNTING PROCEEDING SLOWLY. SYDNEY, March 27. (Received March 27, at 11.15 p.m.) The police report that polling day .was the most orderly and quiet on record. There is no change, in the state of parties. The counting is proceeding very slowlv, as the first preference votes are being checked before the other preference votes are looked into. All the members of the Dooley Cabinet have retained their seats.