MEW SOUTH WALES POLLS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1927, Page 9

MEW SOUTH WALES POLLS

TWO HUNDRED CANDIDATES WIDE CHOICE FOR ELECTORS SPLITTING OF PARTY VOTES By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received, Sept. 15, 1.20 a.m. Sydney, Sept. 14. Nominations for the State election closed to-da.v. They number 220 candidates, including four women, for the 90 seats. The candidates comprise Nationalist, Labour, Independent Nationalist, Country Party, Independent Country Party, Independent Labour, Protestant Labour and Independent. In many eases the party vote will be split as there are numbers of candidates who failed to secure party selection, contesting the seats as either Independent Nationalists or Independent Labourites. Sydney, Sept. 14. The leader of the Country Party delivered a policy speech. He declared that the party was anxious to assist sound progressive Government. They had made a pact with the Nationalist Party to oust a Government that had lost all sense of political decency and fair play. He outlined various schemes which the party supported for fostering irrigation, land settlement, water conservation and decentralisation, for generally developing country interests, parliamentary reform to include a reduction of Legislative Council membership to 64 on an elective basis, their term not to exceed 12 years, such change to follow a referendum of the people, also family endowment, but to apply throughout the Commonwealth and the elimination of rural industries from the Arbitration Court until Federal awards were brought into action.