FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1929, Page 5

FEDERAL ELECTIONS

LABOUR’S MAJORITY. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, October 15. There is still good ground to believe that the Lalour Party will have fortysix seats in the new Parliament. MR BRUCE’S SEAT. MELBOURNE, October 15. The position in the Prime Minister’s electorate is unchanged. There are nearly five thousand absentee votes to count before the second preferences can be distributed, about Thursday. DEFEATED MINISTER ILL.

FREMANTLE, October 15. The liner Otranto arrived to-day from London with the Honorary Federal Minister, Mr Marr, on board. He had already learned of his defeat by radio, but he was too ill to be interviewed. THE LOST DEPOSITS.

SYDNEY, October 15

Sixteen of the candidates at the Federal election have lost their deposits of £25.

THE PREMIERSHIP

SYDNEY, October 15

Mr G. G. Theodore to-day denied rumours that he intends to contest the Prime Ministership with Mr J. H. Scullin.

MR SCULLIN’S CAREER

SYDNEY, October 15

Mr James lfenrj T Scullin, the Leader of the Australian Federal Parliamentary Labour Party, was born on September 18th, 1876, in the Ballarat district, Victoria. Mr Scullin, who is the probable new Prime Minister of Australia, spent the most of his youth in the country, \vhere he took an active part in the Australian Natives’ Association. He became a good debater, and for many years he was Honorary Judge of the Elocutionary contests at the South Street Ballarat Eisteddfod.. Mr Scullin has been a member of the Labour Party since 1903. He won the Corangamite seat in the Federal Parliament in the year 1910. He lost it in 1913. He then became the managing editor of the Ballarat Echo, a Labour journal. He retained that position until the year 1922, when, uopn the death of Mr Frank Tudor, the former Leader of the Federal Opposition, *u.r Scullin secured the Yarra seat, and he then became the Leader of the Federal Labour Party, on the retirement of Mr Matt Charlton last year.