DOUBLE DISSOLUTION
POSSIBLE IN AUSTRALIA < IF LABOUR GETS CONTROL OF SENATE. ONLY FEW SEATS NEEDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, August 29. Mr Justice Evatt, K.C.. of the High Court of Australia, tended his resignation from the Bench to enable him to stand for a seat in the Federal election supporting Mr Curtin and the Official Labour Party. Mr Evatt will contest the Barton electorate, which is at present held by the United Australia Party. It is regarded as a doubtful seat.
Speculation is rife concerning the outcome of the Senate elections, which will be held at the same time as the House of Representatives elections. Nineteen senators are to retire, comprising 17 Government supporters and two Labours, and of the remaining 17 senators 14 are Labour and three Government sup,porters. This means that Labour has to win only a few seals to gain control of the Senate.
With tlie split Labour vote there is every, possibility that the present Government will be returned if the House of Representatives, and if Labour wins in the Senate the position will be a stalemate and a double dissolution is not inconceivable.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 5
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188DOUBLE DISSOLUTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 5
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