CONSERVATIVES GOOD SECOND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 1

CONSERVATIVES GOOD SECOND

LIBERALS A POOR THIRD none of parties has a clear win rt latest results in the British Parliamentary election give Labour a substantial lead over the Conservatives _287 seats to 249. The Liberals won only 51. This with other returns, accounts for 592 seats. It is stated that the remaining- results cannot give the Labour Party an absolute majority. (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service)

jpt' 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Friday. n, e position at 8.15 this evening Übour • • •• •• 28? Conservatives .. .. ... 249 Liberals 51 Miscellaneoos 5 This gave a total of 592 seats. At [ o'clock the figures covered 574 seats, faring *1 returns to come. Mr. Baldwin’s party -was then 42 beiind the Labourites. So the last ape of the Conservatives being the largest party disappeared. It la fairly evident also that Labour snnot win the 27 remaining seats in inter to have an absolute majority. Before the resumption of counting today, the whole country was asking .•tether Labour was able to do it. The results of the boroughs, which gave t surprising Labour turnover, could im be accepted as a criterion of the tiling of the counties. On the available figures, It is obvious that Labour will have to poll more I*ll its strength in the last House, jimely, 160-odd, in order to secure tba Government. The first three counties available— Worcester, Monmouth and Basing-stoke-remained strongly Conservative, the majorities, allowing for the acressed poll, being virtually unaltered

Peterborough was the first county division to register a Conservative settack, Labour converting the 5,000 Conssmtive majority into a minority of its.

Sir Henry Slesser, Solicitor-General in the Labour Government, In a straight fight with a Conservative for Leeds South-east, got a big majority it 15000, comparing with his 4,000 majority in a straight fight against a Liberia in 1924. After the declaration of the Seaham jell. Hr. Ramsay MacDonald, addressing a vast audience before going to London, made a survey of the field of iattle. He said: “Things are changing lam proud to be associated with rou ia this. Did ever Labour people Eve rach an inspiring moment, or iink they would ever see Labour items Tory and double Liberal polls? i: wcn't be all beer and skittles, especially for me. You have finished jie light; I am beginning to bear the "Jrdeii, but am doing It cheerfully, vith your backing through thick and 41a. When I saw the women, par--.culariy the young women, marching in tbs poll with happy faces, proudly venring their colours, 1 visioned the tesult, 1 knew it was ail right.” The Conservative debacle has act greatly affected the Stock Excbsnfle so far as giltedges are construed, the only result at present being a dullness, with an occaaional decline.

DeiJers are marking time until the ™ai results are known; but indushave weakened al 1 . round though -°t as yet to a serious extent. Two Scottish results are worthy of -oopariaon The popular Clydeside .Vj*! Mr - David Kirkwood, was ■'-elected by a big majority, whereas ■ j ' la ™ ss Maxton, the extremist °* the Independent Labour only beat the Conservative at ?™i5 etown . Glasgow, by 984, comjrfj, wit b his former majority of

tiJr 6 distin ction of having the t,™ -? 8t ma i° r ‘ty fell to Lord CrichwA Wart - who is four ahead of the Gouij 1 candidate > Mrs- Barbara

Mr 5 r , a J e BaE action with his union, Glm* * ** cL, ean contested Govan, ami , ow ’ ,as Ehe unendorsed Socialist, |prv»*i a Btrai kbt fight beat the Conat Te> Lord Clydesdale, by 4,648.

A Liberal, Mrs. Wintringham, failed in her second attempt to recapture Louth from the Conservatives. The aggregate votes up to 2.30 p.m. were: Labour 4,976,480 Conservative .. .. 4,786,606 Liberal 2,800,584 LABOUR AND PARLIAMENT The strength of the Labour Party in Parliament has been as follows: 1892, 15; 1895, 12; 1900, 11; 1906, 52; 1910 (January) 40; 1910 (December), 42; 191 S, 62; 1922, 142; 1923, 191; 1924, 150; 1929 (dissolution), 163. HONOUR TO THE LADIES SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES SOME GAINS FOR WOMEN The following women candidates have, so far, been elected: Miss Ellen Wilkinson (Labour). Miss Jenny Lee (Labour). Lady Cynthia Mosley (Labour). Mrs. Mary Hamilton (Labour). Dr. Marion Phillips (Labour). Viscountess Astor (Conservative). Countess of lveagh (Conservative). Miss Megan Lloyd George (Liberal). Dr. Ethel Bentham (Labour) Miss Picton Turburville (Labour). Duchess of Athol (Conservative). Miss Susan Lawrence (Labour). Miss Margaret BondfLeld (Labour).

A British Official Wireless message says; There are six new women members so far elected, in addition to the six women who have been re-elected. The new women are Miss Megan Lloyd George (Liberal), daughter of the Liberal leader, Lady Cynthia Mosley (Labour), wife of Sir Oswald Mosley and daughter of the late Marquess Curzon, Dr. Ethel Bentham (Labour), Dr. Marion Phillips (Labour), an Australian who is chief woman officer of the Socialist Party, Miss Picton Turburville (Labour), a "_,form worker who has spent much time among the dockers and railway labourers, and Mrs. Mary Hamilton, the novelist and economist (Labour).

Lady lveagh. Lady Astor and the Duchess of Atholi (Conservatives) and Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Miss Susan Lawrence, Miss Margaret Bondfield and Miss Jenny Lee (Labour) retain their seats.

Mr. Arthur Henderson, former Labour Home Secretary, will be accompanied in the House by his two sons, Arthur and William. Interviewed today. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour leader, said: “The Labour gains in seats, great as they are, must not eclipse the extraordinary increase in our vote. Thanks are due to women who voted, as we were sure the3 r would, in favour of a policy of social reconstruction at Home and peace abroad.” “TRIPPED UP AGAIN” LLOYD GEORGE’S VIEW PARTY WILL NOT HAGGLE Reed. 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Friday. Mr. Lloyd George, who returned to London from Carnarvon tonight, said; “No party has done as well as it ex-

pected. It would be silly for the Liberals to pretend that we realised our expectations. We again have been tripped up by a triangle. Holding the balance of power is a very responsible position. We fully realise it, and you can deepnd that we shall not make an unfair use of it. We certainly will not use It In a haggling spirit. We shall carefully consider what is the best that should he done in the interests of the country.”