FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
LABOUR PROSPECTS.
SIX SEATS WON. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright SY DNEY, Tuesday. Labour has definitely won six seats in the House of Representatives, and they have an excellent chance of win-'-ning five more, which will bring their strength to thirty-four in a House of 73. The seats won include three in New South Wales, one in Victoria by default owing to the Government candidate,, failing to nominate (in time, one in South Australia, and one in Queensland.
The counting of primary votes still continues. The distribution of preferences begins at the end of the week, when the doubtful contests will be decided, likewise the fate of the Alinisterlal candidates for the Senate. —A. and N.Z. P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 November 1928, Page 5
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