FEDERAL ELECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1929, Page 5

FEDERAL ELECTION

CONTEST WARMING UP. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 21. The election contest is in full swing. Three parties,' Nationalists, Country Party and Labour Party have practiclly completed the "selection of candidates. Official nominations close on Monday. ‘ All eyes are on the constituencies where the Government’s six deserters are seeding re-elect.on. ' Hughes has a formidable opponent: in Doctor Nott. Anti-Labour forces have decided to run opponents against Marks, Mann and Stewart/ but ‘|ho decision is yet reached in regard to Maxwell and Sit Littleton Groom. ■'( Answering criticism of Air Hughes at Chatswood, the Prime Minister, speaking in the same that Mr Hughes had tried to wreck the Government for six years.-'There was no alternative but to elect him from tn«p Party. His only . hope of being returned for North Sydney, was with the assistance of' the Labour vote, because Labour had studiously refrained from putting one of its own men against him. In other words, Labour now intended to support the very man they themselves turned out some years ago.

FEDERAL CANDIDATES. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 21. A Toowoomba message states the Federal Speaker, Sir Littleton Groom, has lost the Nationalist selection for Darling Downs to A. C. Morgan, a Brisbane journalist, who stated he would stand against all comers. A Labour man has also been selected.