1724 Candidates

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 668, 21 May 1929, Page 9

1724 Candidates

BRITISH NOMINATION DAY Many Triangular Contests sS-ai-.i-- ~ (United I*.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. JPress Association) (United Service) Received 12.45 p.m. LONDON. Monday. NOMINATION day for the General Election on Thursday week produced 1,724 candidates for the 615 seats—sßß Conservatives, 571 Labourites, 509 Liberals, 25 Communists. 31 of other parties—with over £261,000 in deposits.

r combined English Universities have not yet nominated their candidates. Four Conservatives and three Nationalists are unopposed, the latter consisting of Mr. T. P. O’Connor, doyen of the House, whose prospective Communist opponent failed to produce his £l5O deposit, and Mr. Joseph Devlin and Mr. T. Harbison, in Tyrone and Fermanagh. The Conservatives, although they held the seats in 1924, are not contesting them this time. The Conservative unopposed candi-

dates are the Speaker of the House, Captain Fitzroy, for Daventry; Commodore H. Douglas King, Parliamentary Secretary of Mines, for South Paddington; Colonel Thomas Sinclair, Belfast University; Major Ross, Londonderry. In the majority of the 62 London divisions there are three-cornered contests: but in South-West, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, South Tottenham, and North Battersea quadrangular fights are staged, consisting of Conservatives, Labourites, Liberals and Communists. There are also four candidates, including Independents, for Harrow' and Colchester. Mr. W. S. Sanders, Labour candidate for North Battersea, refused to

I shake hands with Mr. S. Saklatvala (Communist M.P.), who is again couj testing the seat. Among 20 nomination papers for Mr I Lloyd George at Carnarvon was ini eluded one signed exclusively by Coni' servatives, although there is a Coni servative candidate. The leading politicians were hard !at work throughout Whit Monday. | Everywhere there was a request for meetings, where there were big crowds. The Conservative leader, Mr. Sian- ; ley Baldwin, opened his northern I campaign by addressing 50,000 people | at Blackpool Beach by means of loud- ! speakers. The speech was relayed I from the Palace Theatre, i Earlier, Mr. Baldwin when he was strolling along the promenade was recognised, and there was a great roar, "We want to see your pipe.” Mr. Baldwin smilingly produced the briar and lit up, saying, “I can assure you politics is not the thing I would choose for a bank holiday if I had my choice.” The Labour leader, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, spoke at places as far 1 apart as Carlisle and Bradford. In his first speech he made play of Mr. Baldwin’s slogan, “Safety first,” saying, ‘‘l am not aged and decrepit | enough to adopt a motto. What Engj land needs is courage and energy.”