FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
Excuse for Labour Losses,
Pei Press Asssociation. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Brisbane, January 5.
Ex-Senator Higgs, in a letter to the newspaper " Worker,” gives among the reasons for the defeat of the Socialist Party in Queensland the more lavish expenditure of money than at any previous election. It came from rich shareholders in rings and trusts which were threatened by the Labour platform, from men whom it paid to contribute thousands of pounds to keep out of Parliament the representatives of the masses. Women’s Votes. Sydney, January 3. Senator St. Ledger, in an interview, claimed that the splendid women’s vote won the anti-socialist victory in Queensland.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 8698, 5 January 1907, Page 2
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107FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 8698, 5 January 1907, Page 2
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