CANADA’S GENERAL ELECTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16868, 24 October 1925, Page 5

CANADA’S GENERAL ELECTION.

PLETHORA OF CANDIDATES.

Australian and N.Z Cable Association. OTTAWA, Oct. 22.

In the nominations for the Federal general election, candidates are "officially named in every one of 241 ridings. In Ontario province there are 186 candidates contesting 82 seats in the House of Commons. In the three prairie pro vinces, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, there are between 150 and 160 nominees for 44 seats. British Columbia lias produced 35 contestants for fourteen seats, and Quebec province for 65 seats lias 145 candidates. The maritime provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, with 29 seats, have 58 candidates. Both the Liberal and Conservative parties are contesting almost every riding, while Progressive Labor and Independent candidates are named in considerable number.

The nominees include four women, one in New Brunswick, one in British Columbia, and two in Ontario; one is on the Labor ticket, one Progressive, and two Independent. Polling is to take place on October 29. The nominations total 581 candidates in 241 ridings. The Liberal party, headed by the Premier, Mr King, has 215 official nominees, the Conservatives 239, Progressives 69, Labor, including former Labor, 21, Independents 37.

PREFERENTIAL TRADE. LONDON, October 9. Pointing out that flip tariff issue is likely to dominate the Canadian election, the trade supplement of the Times says that it is impossible to disguise the fact that in Canada, which was the first to give preference to the Mother Country’s products, there is now a decided tendency among a largo section of the electorate to modify that preference, while a not inconsiderable section has frankly declared in favor of abandonment. It is overearly to see what will fie the result of the elections, says the Tinlcs, but it is distinctly encouraging that tho modification of preference has become a live issue in Canadian politics.