BRITISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1929, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

A LIBERAL CANDIDATE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). jjondon; May is. The Hon. Harold Robson, a barrister, and the sou of the late Lord .Robson, who formerly was Liberal Member for South Shields, has accepted an invitation to act as a candidate in plate of Mr E. A. Harney, Iv.C. Liberal member for South Shields. PARTY LEADERS BUSY. SOME VIEWPOINTS. LONDON, May 17. The party leaders are resting 'for the week-end, but the work in the constituencies does not cease. * Conservative headquarters deny a re port circulated that a last-minute surprise is already prepared and that a secret document is to circulate on the eve of the poll. An official stated this election was not going.'to. be won by surprises, but by an appeal to eommonsonse. Mr J. L. Garvin in the “ Observer” says the jest of the election is that millions of women are asking the men how to vote and there are millions of men who can’t tell them. Mr Lloyd George at Cricciet.li, referred to the American war debt settlement as a one-sided arrangement, one of the most : monstrous- bargains ever made by any minister.^