BRITISH POLITICS
PRESTON BY-ELECTION VICTORY FOR LABOUR (United PreM Association—By lUotrlo Tatarraph—Copyright) (Australian Press Association.—United Service) i LONDON, 31st July. The Preston by-election caused by the resignation of Sir William Jowitt, Attorney-General, in order to re-contest in the interests of Labour the seat which he had won as a Liberal before accepting a post in the MacDonald Labour Government, resulted: — Sir W. Jowitt, K.C. (Lab.) .... 35,608 Dr. A. B. Howitt (C.) 29,108 8. M. Holdon (Ind.) 410 The voting at the General Election was: — T. Shaw (Lab.) .17,705 W. A. Jowitt (L.) .11,277 A. B. Howitt (0.) 29,110 C. E. CI. Emmott (C.) 27,754 S. M. Holdon (Ind.) 2,111
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19290802.2.11
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 August 1929, Page 2
Word Count
109BRITISH POLITICS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 August 1929, Page 2
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in