IN HUSBAND'S SHOES
LADY BUXTON RETAINS SEAT FOR LABOUR BY-ELECTION IN ENGLAND United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. The Norfolk by-election, owing to Mr. Noel Buxton’s elevation to the peerage, resulted: Lady Buxton (Labour) ~ 14,841 T. R. A. M. Cook (Con.) . 14,642 Majority 199 A British Official Wireless message says: At the General Election, Mr. Buxton won the Norfolk seat in a three-cornered contest, in which the Liberal candidate polled over 3,900. The main issue at the by-election was the Empire free trade policy, which was strongly advocated by Lord Beaverbrook, who addressed a large number of meetings in support of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Cook. Compared with the figures of the last election, there was an increase of nearly 2,000 votes in the Conservative vote, and of 300 in the Labour vote.
Upon his elevation to the peerage, which was conferred among this year’s Birthday Honours, Lord Buxton, then Minister of Agriculture in the Labour Cabinet, resigned, and the party chose his wife to contest the vacant seat. At the General Election of 1928 the l-esult of the poll in Norfolk, Northern Division, was as follows: Kt. Hon. Noel E. Buxton (Lab.) 14,544 r P. R. A. M. Cook (Con.) .. 12,661 Mrs. C. F. Hoffman (Lib.) 3,403
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 11
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