ELECTION EVE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 October 1931, Page 3

ELECTION EVE

(British Official Wireless)

leaders confident LARGE GOVERNMENT MAJORITY EXPECTED BY DETACHED OBSERVERS CONFIDENCE SHOWN ABROAD

RUGBY, Monday. Almost every large hall in the constituencies in which contests are taking place has been engaged for meetings to-night, at which the eandidates j will make their final appeal to the ! electors. The leaders of both sides I express confidenee in the result, while detached observers look for a large majority for the National Government. The Stock Exchange marlcet in majoiities" to-day was standing at 195 to 200. . The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, rested yesterday in preparation for to-day's whirlwind tour of his scattered constituency. Mr. Stanley Baldwin returned to London yesterday following a tour of the northern constituencies, which it is stated has strengthened his conviction that the Government will secure a handsome majority. Sir Herbert Samuel, the Liberal i leader, remained in his constituency, in which the result of the polling is in some doubt. Mr. Henderson, the Labour chief, is still confined to his room. In a broadcast address, the Prime Minister claimed that trust in the National Government, both at Home and abroad, had been magnificently maintained as the behaviour of the •pound showed. A foundation of sound national iinance, a favourable trade balance, and the changed conditions of to-day made it advisable to examine whether the pre-war policy should be modified or improved. The King arrived in London to-day from Sandringham by train and drove to Buckingham Palace, where he will hear the election results tomorrow night and on the following days.