VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1924, Page 3

VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.

VICTORIAN POLLING. IUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIII.K ASSOCIATION. (Received this liny m !b lo n.m.) .MELBOURNE. J 27 Polling ni the State eleet inns 1apathetic. There arc lour parlies ill tin. field, namely, Conservative Nationalist- (or Covcrumi-iii Parly). Liberals (consisting ol the breakaway wing of the Government supporters and the lien anti-Conservative candidates) and Labour and Country Panic-. Returns will not he available till midnight, as the voting is on the preferential system and the counting will not close till midnight. Early figures indicate that the Government might sustain serious reverses and possibly may he unable to carry on without the support ol one of the other parties.

GOVERNM ENT DEFEATED. (Received thi- day at 11.21 a.in.) MELBOURNE. June 27. Many leTuriis are .-[ill incomplete. On the present figure" Labour has gained four seats, with a posisbility of gaining .-even. Tin* six independents elected include live breakaway Liberals so that the Government have apparently 10.-t eleven seats, though there is a possibility of the position altering somewhat. The Country Party look's like losing on sent to |..d»ttir. All the Ministers ami other party leaders seem safe. The Premier declined to comment on the situatin'', hut in the lace of the laid that ns things stand the Government can count on only as correct direct, supporters compared with thiitv in last Parliament, it is considered it will probably resign.

VICTOR IAX KI/F.CTIONS. PKOGKF.SS HRTF HNS. AfKLBOFBNF.. June 27. The progress returns of iho polling show the state of the parties as fob lows: Labour 20 Nationalists 20 Country Party 13 Indpendents 0