NEW FEDERAL PARTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 9

NEW FEDERAL PARTY

! PROMINENT K.C. NAMED AS CANDIDATE NOTT OPPOSES HUGHES Reed. 9.20 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. A new Federal political party has been formed. It is called the People’s Party and will avowedly be Nationalist in sentiment. The party has decided to contest' five seats in the neighbourhood of Sydney, but will not oppose Mr. W. M. Hughes, at North Sydney, nor Lieutenant-Commander W. M. Marks, at Wentworth. The personnel of the People’s Party, its leaders and its prospective candidates, has not yet been announced. The Labour Party yesterday decided upon an intensive campaign with the object of winning eight Federal seats. Until the election is over all State issues and all the domestic politics of the unions are to be set aside. The latest election developments are as follow: Mr. W. A. Windeyer, K.C., as a j People’s Party nominee, will oppose Mr. Parkhill, the Nationalist organiser. Dr. L. W. Nott is certain to be selected as an opponent against Mr. Hughes. Lieutenant-Commander Marks and Mr. Hughes have sent in their nominations to the Nationalists. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, opens his New South Wales campaign in Chatswood, the centre of Mr. Hughes’s North Sydney electorate. Mr. Bruce is to deliver a policy speech this evening at Dandenong. This is a week earlier than was originally arranged. Afterward the Prime Minister will visit Sydney. From here he will go by airplane to Brisbane and back to Victoria. MARR ABOARD OTRANTO: ABANDONS IDEA OF FLYING HOME (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. Mr. C. W. C. Man*, member for Parkes in the Federal Parliament, has abandoned the idea of dashing home by air, and will embark on the Otranto, on which Viscount and Lady Craigavon are passengers, on their way to New Zealand.