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MR. MENZIES' COMMENT
Rec. 11.15 p.m. Melbourne, Sept. 23. The Prime Minister, Mf. R. G. Menzies, commenting on the election, said that had New South Wales been in line with the other States there would have been a landslide in favour of the Government. "I expect the position in both Houses will be the same as before. We had been 1 told it was impossible to win the Senate in five States but it looks as though we have. • "I was not surprised at the New South Wales vote, where local issues and influences combined to swing against us. My vote in my own electorate, Kooyong, was the greatest encouragement I ever had in politics." Mr. Menzies declined to comment on the prospects of forming a national Government or reconstruction of the Ministry. A Perth message says that political circles there report that should Mr. S. Curtin, former Government member, be defeated at Fremantle, which is declared to be inevitable, Mr. A. E. Green, who is in ill-health, is prepared to resign the Kalgoolie seat in Mr. Curtin's favour. Mr. Green is the only member of the last Parlaiment who was not opposed in Saturday's election.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1940, Page 8
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