FEDERAL ELECTION BATTLE
NATIONALIST POSITION STRENGTHENED P.L.L. LEADERS SURPRISED Sydney, May 8. Latest figures continue to strengthen iho Nationalist position, both as regards the Senate and the HotiEe. .As far as New South Wales, Victoria, West Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania aro concerned tile Senate ■leads to such an extent as to make Nationalist victories ptactically sureThough the counts are far from being complete, inclading the very big untouched absentee vote, Federal and House ■ seats previously ■ doubtful new appear likely to go to the Nationalists.
Tho Political Labour League leaders express great surprise at the result and attribute it to the plenitude of the funds the. National party commanded. The reply to this'is that the Liberal party always had moro funds than Labour, yet the latter previously was able to win.
The newspapers claim that Saturday's vote, and not the conscription referendum, was the Commonwealth's cue for an expression of opinion on the war, and that it has rehabilitated Australia in the eyes of the Empire.—Press Assn. ■ .; .
the queensland upper house : .; . . issue • » ■REFERENDUM VOTING. Brisbane, May 8. Incomplete returns of the referendum for the abolition of the Legislative Council show tho voting to be: — For ..?. 95,705 Against 144,759 —Press Assn,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19170509.2.28
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
200FEDERAL ELECTION BATTLE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in