BRITISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1929, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

POLLING DAY, ALAY 30

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RUGBY, April 25,

The Prime Minister lias announced that Parliament w;;iild be prorogued and dissolved on May 10. Nomination day would bo May 20. and polling would take place on .May 30. LONDON, April 27.

Tiie “Daily Telegraph” states; Mr Baldwin has already decided on the key positions of a. post election cabnet. Sir Austen Chamberlain is exjx'cted to remain at the foreign office for two years, and will then probably bo succeeded by Lord Erwin.

LABOUR’S POLICY

(Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 28

Air Ramsay MacDonald, launching the Labourites election campaign at a great rally in Albert Hall, said unemployment bulks largest in the Labour Party’s mind. Britain to-day was facing a complete revolution of transport, owing to the development of motors and electricity, which the Labour Party believes must be assisted, or Britain will be unable to compete with foreign markets. Labour proposed to appoint a committee, over which the Prime Minister will preside and to which all questions of markets, currency and industry will j be referred. Roads will he built systematically, bridges will be broken j down and reconstructed and railways re-conditioned.

.Mr MacDonald . added “We waivt peace in Europe, and diplomatic relations, with Russia, which ■■. if it had committed ten thousand faults and crimes of which it were accused cannot be left out by any far-seeing man.”