FINAL APPEALS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 268, 14 November 1935, Page 7

FINAL APPEALS

ELECTIONS IN BRITAIN PARTIES AT FULL PRESSURE RECORD ROLL TOTAL aa f British Official Wireless. ] UGBY, Nov. 12. Less than 48 hours remain before the nation goes to the polls, and almost every one of the 1348 candidates for the election has many platform engagements before the campaign closes, the party organisations are working at full pressure on the final canvass of their supporters. The number of electors on the rolls is the largest that has. ever taken part in a Parliamentary election. Normal voting hours are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m , but in many constituencies, in order to suit the convenience of voters, polling booths will be open on Thursday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The counting of votes in some 30U boroughs will Ge undertaken immediately after polling closes, and the results will be known within a few hours. In the more scattered' county constituencies the votes will De counted on the following morning, and early Friday afternoon all the results, with but a few exceptions, have been declared. Results will begin to be received about 10 p.m. on Thursday, and the British Broadcasting 'Corporation is arranging to announce them in their programme as they are published. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, made his final speech at Newcastle to-night, and nearly every other Minister, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hdarc, spoke at one or more meetings to-day. The Leader of the official Labour Opposition, Major Attlee, spoke at Nottingham. ELECTION NIGHT LIVELIEST SINCE WAR, WHAT LONDON EXPECTS. Received Nov. 13, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 12. London is preparing for the most lively election night singe the war. Special licensing extensions to midnight have been granted to public houses, as well as to hotels and ■fashionable restaurants. Mr. Baldwin, besides his last speech in the campaign at Newcastle, >n a final message to the nation says:— “Steady recovery for four years has made Britain the most envied of all nations. The world is watching because it realises that the continuance of a strong, experienced, and stable Government here will be a vital factor in the preservation of world peace through the League of Nations.” The Prime Minister pledged the Government not to spend a penny more on defences than was necessary for safety. The Government would strive to bring the nations into agreement for an allround reduction of armaments. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald faced t.n angry audience at Shotton. Be referred to mob dictatorship, and .the meeting was prematurely closed.