BRITISH POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20501, 31 August 1928, Page 9

BRITISH POLITICS

FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS. PARTY CONFERENCES TO BE HELD. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, August 29. (Received August 30, at 7 pan.) Exceptional interest attaches to the political party conferences which have been arranged for the autumn, as they will be the last annual meetings of their kind before the general election. The Conservative Party executive met yesterday to consider the arrangements for its conference, at which upwards of 1500 delegates will attend, representing organisations in every Parliamentary constituency in England and Wales. The conference will be held at Great Yarmouth and will begin on September 20, a mass meeting will be addressed by the Prime Minister on the following day, and other members of the Cabinet and prominent members of Parliament will engage in a platform campaign comprising a series of meetings throughout the eastern counties. Other political parties are also actively preparing for next year’s election campaign, which has added importance owing to the addition of nearly 5,250,000 voters to the electorates as a result of the recent extension of the franchise to women of 21. Great Yarmouth will also be the scene of the Liberal Party conference, which has been fixed for October 11 and 12. The agenda for the conference comprises about 20 resolutions covering t’ ■ whole field of national policy, which will be submitted by the executive to afford authoritative guidance to candidates nd others and to form the basis subsequently of a general manifesto to the nation.