THE DAY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 June 1932, Page 5

THE DAY

N.S.W. ELECTIONS SURVEY OF PROSPECTS. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, Friday. Tlio general elections which arc being held in the sister States of New South Wales and Queensland to-morrow are creating the keenest interest throughout Australia. The Commonwealth 'Ministry for obvious reasons is hoping for the return of Governments pledged to carrying out the Premiers’ plan for rehabilitation of the national linances, which already is partly accomplished. That Mr Lang’s relations with the Commonwealth are strained to the uttermost is common knowledge. Indeed, ho would give the Federal Government no quarter and certainly would get none if returned.

Mr Lang’s policy makes it quite clear that he will launch the biggest offensive in the history of the State on the banks and other financial interests with his mortgage taxation measure. Originally he stated that the £10,000,000 to £12,000,000 thus obtained would help pay the interest of the overseas bond-holders, but now lie explains that the money would be devoted to providing employment, and whatever was left over would go to the bond-holders. It is safe to say that no other Premier has received such a raking from newspapers, and no politician since the late George Reid has been caricatured to the same extent or purpose as has Mr Lang. Despite the orgy of political capital his opponents have made out of Mr Lang’s hectic career, his party is supremely confident that Labour will be returned to power. They argue that to win the enemy must swing over 179,535 votes, which is an impossibility. Labour having won 15 seats in 1930, now counts on winning 10 more. Party organisers for the Government side, however, predict that Labour will lose practically every seat in the country, also several in the metropolis. They put it that in eight or ten contests in 1930 the majorities were so narrow in favour of Labour that it is a quite simple process to swing them away from Labour on this occasion, and that the people who will do the trick comprise . the middle-class and small business men, who in 1930 were deluded by Mr Lang’s lavish promises. Addressing a huge rally in the Sydney Town Hall, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, Mr J. A. Lyons, announced: “If Mr Lang is put back again we will tic him up as we tied him up before. I.have already said on several occasions that while the Lang blight remains there is no hope for Australia, and the incubus will have to be removed.” BIG DAY ANTICIPATED. (Received Saturday, 9.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The weather for election day is fine and cool. At midnight polling booth workers in a number of the suburbs had already taken up their positions in anticipation of a big day.