AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS

CONTEST IN FULL SWING EVICTION OF ME. HUGHES SYDNEY, Sept. 20. Answering the criticism of Mr. Hughes at. Chatswood, the Prime Minister to-night, speaking in the same hall, declared that Mr. Hughes had tried to wreck the Government six years ago. Then; was no alternative but to eject him from the party. His only hope of being returned for North Sydney was with the assistance of the Labor vote, because Labor had studiously refrained from putting one of its own men against 'hint. In other words, Labor now intended to support the very man they themselves turned out some years ago. The election contest is in full swing. The three parties, Nationalists, Country Party and Labor, have practically completed their selection or candidates. Official nominations close on Monday. All eyes are on the constituencies where the Government’s six' deserters are seeking re-election. Mr. Hughes has a formidable opponent in Dr. Noth Anti-Labor forces have decided to run opponents against Messrs. Marks, Mann and Stewart, but no decision has yet been reached in regard to Mr. Maxwell und Sir Littleton Groom. OPPONENTS FOE SPEAKER AN OFFICIAL NATIONALIST (Received September 21, 11 a.in.) SYDNEY, September 21. A Toowoomba message states that the Federal Speaker, Sir Littleton Groom, has lost the Nationalist selection for Darling Downs to Mr. A. C. Morgan, a. Brisbane journalist, who stated that he would stand against' ail comers. A Libor man also has been selected. THE ASHFIELD SEAT NO NATIONALIST CANDIDATE ('Received September 21. noon) SYDNEY, Sept. 21. Tho Nationalist executive decided-not to call for nominations for the Ashfield seat. Therefore there will be no endorsed Nationalist candidate, but Mr. A. Pickett has announced that he will be nominated as a Nationalist. Air. J. Clancy has been selected by the Australian Labor Party as the endorsed Labor candidate.