BRITISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1931, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

NOMINATION DAY. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, October If!. To-day is nomination day. Seldom have the names of election candidates been awaited with keener interest, as only the full list will reveal the extent to which unity of the parties has been achieved in the intciest of the National Government. before tiirce o’clock, about 1250 candidates v. ill have handed in their papers, being 450fewer than in 1929. There will be 200 straight-out lights, in which Conservatives are standing against Socialists, while liftecn of the National Labour candidates will have straightout lights with the Labour Party also. Candidates include Mr Speaker, and the following members of the present Ministry:—Air Baldwin, Mr Dutf-Coop-Sir Robert Hamilton, Sir Eyres Mouse'!, Sir Frederic Thomson, Sir Thomas Jnslcip, Mr Isaac Foot, Major • live Stanley, and Major McKenzie Mood. LONDON, October 16. The Women’s Freedom League gives a provisional li«t of women candidates as follows :—Thirteen Conservatives, twenty-eight Labourites, eight Liberals two Communists, three National Labourites. LLOYD GEORGE’S ADVICE. LONDON, October 16. Rt. Hon, D. Lloyd George, in lbs broadcast speech, has urged the Liuerals wHo have to choose between a Protectionist Conservative candidate and a Free Trade Labour candidate, to vote against the Conservatives. This direction has caused surprise and resentment in Liberal oircYes, says “The Times's” political correspondent, “and was promptly repudiated by Lord Stan more, the Chairman of the Liberal Election Committee, who emphasised that in all there would he 125 Liberals .in the field, who, he said, would be fighting on the lines of the Liberal manifesto, that was against ISocialism and for the National Government, and not on the question of tariffs.” Lord Stanmore said that he also inferred that Mr Lloyd George might mot lead’ the Liberal Party in the new Parliament. “No official Leader oi the Party,” he said, “can be named until after the election.’’

“There was therefore much speculation .Hast night,” says the “Times’s” correspondent, whether Mr Lloyd •George’s name be allowed to remain on the list of official Liberal candidates. In some quarters it was suggested that he was making a- bold bid for the Socialist Party leadership.