FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 December 1931, Page 5

FEDERAL ELECTIONS

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OFsiE V1TAL ISSUE inflation or no inflation becomes the question SCULLIN SUPPORTS THEODORE

-By Telegraph — Copyright)

SYDNEY, Saturday. With only a week to polling day, the Federal election campaign was narrowed itself down to the one vital issue — inflation or no inflation? The Prime Minister is now a frank supporter of Mr. Theodore's fiscal policy, aiming at the nationalisation of banking and phanging the monetary system. The newspapers openly charge Messrs Theodore (Finance Minister) and Scullin (Prime Minister) with being inflationists, and puhlic interest centres upon this aspect. The Prime Minister is travelling across Eastern Australia at a great rate, and is being well received in the larger centres. He insists that he is totally opposed to uncontrolled inflation, and declares that his opponents ,are wage cutters and the enemies of Arbitration Oourt awards. Mr. Theodore is fighting a battle in his own electorate (Dalley) against a rival Beasley candidate, who, it is believed, will run him very close. Mr. J. A. Lyons, on behalf of the anti-Labour forces, has visited Yictoria and Tasmania, and is now back in New South Wales. While in Victoria he sought the help of his pld eolleague, Mr. F. E. Fepton, iii Maribyriiong, but organised hooliganism presented Mr. Lyons getting a hearing. Nominations for the Senate in Tasmania and Western Australia closed yesterday, the number of candidates offering in Tasmania being twelve and in Western Australia eight.