CANDIDATE’S DEATH GIVES LABOUR SEAT
SENATE ELECTION IN COMMONWEALTH Reed. noon. MELBOURNE, To-day. Major-General Forsyth, one of the Nationalist candidates for the Senate, died last evening after a brief illness with pneumonia, following Influenza. A difficulty arises in connection with the election papers, on which his name was printed. Instructions will be given to the returning officers to delete It. As only two Government candidates remain for three vacant seats. Labour is assured of one of theffi. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, has completed a whirlwind election tour of Australia. He says he is confident that the present Government will be returned with a substantial majority. Labour must win 13 seats to unseat his Government, which he thinks is a hopeless task, especially in view of the recent industrial turmoil.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 13
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