Smuts Party Polls Well

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 689, 14 June 1929, Page 9

Smuts Party Polls Well

SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTION Seats Captured From Labour

( United J’.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 11 a - ]n - CAPETOWN, Thursday. (INLY 68 election returns out of 148 were in hand at 4 p.m. * Labour has lost nine seats, the South African Party has gained nine, and the Nationalists have gained two.

The present state of parties com- Posts and Telegraphs, was re-elected, pared with the position at the 1924 The votes of the coloured population election (135 seats), is as follows- have gone solidly for the South African Party. 1929. 1924. The results are filtering slowly in. to date. The voters in the towns refused to be South African Party 42 53 scared by the black “bogey,” and Nationalists IS 63 solidly hacked General Smuts. Labour S 18 Johannesburg North was won by Independent 1 the South African Party by one vote. Mr. Jansen, the Speaker, was reOf the Labour seats Colonel Cres- turned, well’s supporters hold five and Na- General Smuts, General Hertzog, Mr. tional Labour Council candidates N. C. Havenga (Minister of Finance) three. ; and General J. C. G. Kemp (Minister Mr. Patrick Duncan (South African ! of Agriculture) were also elected. Partyi. who was Minister of the In-1 It is predicted that the Labouri.erior in General Smuts’ Cabinet of I Nationalist pact will have a majority 1921. was re-elected for Y r eoville. j of about 20, and that Labour will hold Mr. H. W. Sampson, Minister oi: I the balance o£ power.