DOUBTFUL SEATS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 221, 18 September 1934, Page 5

DOUBTFUL SEATS

•AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS ) STATE LABOUR GAINS « LYONS’ STRONG POSITION H’ ie s, (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) ?r Received Sept. 17 11.55 p.m. n SYDNEY, Sept. 17 ’s To-day’s fresh election figures did e- not appreciably alter the party tn strength as outlined yesterday. The y loss of the Werriwa seat by the United g Australia-ite, Air T. Mutch, to the State ie Labourite, Mr H. Lazzarim, seems beb- yond doubt. This seat at the last election was won from State Labour by the Country Partyite, Air W. McNicholi, who stood down on this occasion. Hence Air Lazzarini recovers the seat he originally Jield with the aid of the new electoral boundaries. 10 Similar influences are operating in 10 the Barton electorate, where the United ?• Australia-ite, Air A. Lane, seems likely ( i to lose his seat to the original party, i 0 State Labour, whose nominee, Air J. n C. Eldridge, is now overhauling Air Lane. h Other definitely doubtful seats from IC a partv point of view are Maranoa and w Aforeton in Quecnslnd, Denison in Tas*l mania, and Fremantle in Perth. The 10 outcome of these will probably not be e known until the end of the week, when a the preferences are checked and 132,000 absentee portal votes handled. Meanwhile the party position, based on the latest figures remains substantially as cabled yesterday. is

e LYONS PARTY’S LEAD r e AN UNEQUIVOCAL MANDATE 11 SYDNEY, Sept. 17. n With the counting of the votes cast 'I in the Federal election on Saturday ’• not yet complete the results show that J the Lyons Government has received an I unequivocal mandate to carry on. Of 2,966,143 votes so far counted the United Australia Party has secured 1,154,762, the Country parties 296,683, Federal Labour 796,412, State Labour 466,472, Douglas Credit 144.736, and Communists 41,498- The •*—ainder are for Socialists and Independents. The Sydney Morning Herald gives the state of parties as follows: United Australia Party .... 31 o United Country Party .. .. 11. I Federal Labour .......... .15 s State Labour 7 Doubtful 10 ’ The Labour Daily says that State ■ Labour has a certain ten seats and 3 possibly twelve. i ; SOME SURPRISES IN NEW SOUTH WALES LANG LABOUR’S GAINS SYDNEY, Sept. IT. The surprise of the latest count is i the reversal of Mr T. D. Alutch’s lead - in Werriwa. On the figures it now ap- - pears that the seat will go to Air H. P. Lazzarini, State Labour. It was at first thought that Mr AFutch, former State Minister of Education in the Lang regime, would win a notable victory for the United Australia Party in New South Wales, Werriwa last election was won by the Country Party. The Sydney Morning Herald, in a leader, says: “As the Labour Party has discarded its old ideals, so the workers everywhere are discarding the Labour Party. It no longer represents them; it belies the name it bore when they gave it their allegiance. There is in this State at all events no longer a Labour Party. What arrogates that title to itself is a coterie grasping at power for the aggrandisement of one section of the workers as against all other sections, and in a mistaken sense of loyalty to the name of Labour men with naturally nothing but good will in their hearts allow themselves to bo dragooned into what in a country where no privilege is recognised must always be a hopeless class war. “Interpreted in its right meaning, this election was not a defeat of Labour, it was a victory—a victory for ■' the majority of the people, whteh js the same thing in this country as a majority of the workers.” I The Labour Daily, in a leader, says ’ that the results of the voting afford every reason for the Labour Party in 5 New South Wales to look forward to ' the immediate future with the greatest optimism. Labour demonstrated on Saturday that it had consolidated its 1 front during the past eighteen months, I so that to-day it has a united move- i ment prepared to accept an undiluted s Labour policy.” i FORMER LABOUR PREMIER * CAREER OF MB. LYONS. 1 1 Mr. J. A. Lyons, the leader of the 2 United Australia Party, was born at f Stanley, Tasmania, on September lb’, 5 1875, and educated at State and con- < vent schools, matricultaing at the 1 University of Tasmania. After follow- t ing school teaching for some years, he c was elected to the Tasmanian Parlia- 1 ment for Wilmot on April 30, 1909, as ,t a Labour member. He was a Trea- 1 surer and Minister of Education and