SWEEPING WIN
UNITED PARTY IN SOUTH AFRICA GOVERNMENT IN STRONG POSITION. ONE MINISTER NOT RETURNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. CAPE TOWN, May 20. With only eight results outstanding in the general election, the state of the parties is as follows: — United Party 108 Nationalists 22 Dominion 8 Labour ....’ 3 Socialist 1 Mr A. P. J. Fourie, Minister of Commerce and Industries, is the only Minister not returned. General Hertzog’s majority over the Nationalist candidate is 526. Mr N. C. Havenga, in a stiff fight to retain his seat, has a majority of 331 over his former Cabinet colleague, Mr Justice Beyers, who was Minister of Mines in General Hertzog’s Cabinet in pre-fusion days. The complete returns in the urban areas were: —United Party 51; Nationalists, 6; Dominion Party, 6; Labour 3; Independent, 1.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 7
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