SPEAKER DROPPED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 11

SPEAKER DROPPED

NATIONALIST SELECTION LOST AUSTRALIAN ELECTION (United P.A —By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 10 a.m. SY'DNEY, Today. A Toowoomba message states that the Federal Speaker, Sijr Littleton Groom, has lost the Nationalist selection for Darling Downs to Mr. A. C. Morgan, a Brisbane journalist, who stated that he would stand against all comers. A Labour man has also been selected. Sir Littleton failed to stand by the Government in the recent crisis. The Federal election campaign is in full swing. The three parties— Nationalists, Country Party and Labour —have practically completed the selection of their candidates and nominations will close on Monday. All eyes are upon the constituencies where the six deserters from the Government are seeking re-election. Mr. W. M. Hughes has a formidable opponent in Dr. L. W. Nott. The anti-Labour forces have decided to run opponents against Lieut-enant-Commander William Marks and Messrs. E. A. Mann and P. G. Stewart, but no decision has yet been reached in regard to opposing Mr. G. A. Maxwell and Sir Littleton Groom. Replying to the criticism of Mr. Hughes at Chatswood, the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, last evening, in a speech in the same hall, said Mr. Hughes had been trying to wreck the Government for six years. There was no alternative but to' eject him from the Nationalist Party. His only hope of being returned for North Sydney was with the assistance of the Labour vote, because Labour had studiously refrained from putting one of its own men against him. In other words, Labour now intended to support the very man it had turned out some years ago.