A RECORD POLL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 264, 6 November 1937, Page 9

A RECORD POLL

FEDERAL ELECTIONS 96 PER CENT. OF VOTERS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Nov. 5, 7.35 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 5. According to the Chief Commonwealth Electoral Officer, the polling at the Federal elections was the highest on record. Present figures indicate that 96 per cent, of the 4,084,000 electors voted. The completion of the distribution of preferences in Tasmania has resulted in the return of two remaining Labour candidates, Messrs. R. Darcy and C. Lamp. Two of the three Labour candidates, Messrs. J. Barnes and D. Cameron, have been elected to fill Victorian vacancies in the Senate. It is expected that the third Labour candidate, Mr. R. Keane, will be elected after the further allocation of preferences to-day. Interest in the election returns is now focused on the counting of preferences for the Senate, which has begun in the smaller States. The Government is hopeful of winning three Senate seats each in South Australia and Queensland. Should the Government win in those two States the party strength in the Senate would be Government 23, Labour 13. RETURNING TO IRELAND PEER WHO FOUGHT AGAINST BRITAIN Received Nov. 5, 9.5 p.m. PRAGUE, Nov. 5. Viscount Taale, a descendant of a noble Welsh family which settled in Ireland in the tenth century and has lived in Bohemia for the last 30 years, who fought against Britain in wartime causing Parliament to abolish his peerage in 1917, is returning to Ireland permanently. He is the only person in the world holding the secret of the murder of the Crown Prince Rudoll of Hapsburg in 1899, confided in him by his father before his death.