MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
LABOURITES DEFEATEDfIN ENG-
LISH PROVINCES
ANTI-LABOUR PARTY
Ranter's Telegrams. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON., April 4
The Labour candidates were heavily defeated in the elections of the Boards of Guardians and District Councils' in the provinces by the Conservatives and) Liberals combining as a n anti-waste party. In many cases not a single Labourite was returned, though the party contested all the seats. This was" most noteworthy in the Notts coalfields, Southampton, and the Newbiggen mining centre of Northumberland. A similar combination of Progressives, independents, municipal reformers and antiLabour candidates will fight the elections for the twenty-nine Boards oi' Guardians i n London on Wednesday.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6491, 6 April 1922, Page 2
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