QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS
SWEEPING VICTORY EUR ANTILABOURITE,a. VOTE OF NO-CONFIDENCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) BRISBANE, this day. Later returns show that the Labour Party suffered a cru-hiug defeat at the municipal eVocious, Anti-Labourites captured, approximately 000 seats to the 30 secure i by the Labourites. In all ihe cities and .larger towns every l.abtourite candidate wa,- defeated, and where they were mccessful in Toe smaller Boroughs il was only by the narrowest of majorities.
The Premier, commenting mi the results, attributed the del cut to the apathy of the Labourites, who evidently thought that the petti Pegging affairs of local government con 1,1 safely be Ibft in the hands of (he Tory politicians.
Ihe Nationalist leader claims the result a> practically a rote of ifo confidence in the Government.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6280, 26 July 1921, Page 2
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