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Election Results

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TO PONDER OVER

(By A Political Observer)

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the Editor, and be accompanied by doubt he will reappear at West-As a child he lived in Port the Writer's Name and Address minster by and-by.

Said. After leaying Oxford he en- not necessarily for insertion, but The first couple of hundred tered a shipping office in Liverpool,

results are never what decides but found the work tedious, as a guarantee of good faith.

fal election in England ~~ They A spell of teaching history at

thirty-seventh Parlia-Milton took part, cost each of are all from small areas thickly Manchester Grammar School fol ment of the United King- the parties £120,000 Other populated the natural strong-lowed, but here, too, there were dom of Great Britain and counties cost from $50,000 to holds of Labour. It takes 30 diffenities. One was that the Northern Ireland and the ninth £90,000, “a tolerable sum,” 33 2. much less time to get the ballot master and his pupils were en-of-King George V. will be contemporary commentator re- boxes into the Municipal offices thusiastic actors in historical brought into being at the Gen-marked "for the privilege of where the counting is done, plays, and made more noise in referal Electnon now in progress eating a beef steak at St. Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 15, 1935 that the totals can be publish bearsals than the other masters About £2,000,000 will change Stephen's coffee house, and

ed within a couple of hours. In considered necessary.

hands in the process of its sleeping on the back benches of the old days when the dates

birth. Its zunual running costs the Commons continuously for used to be spread over about LATE PHILOSOPHER

will be about £800,000...

{seven years="VA three weeks it was usually the

The taxpayers will have to Both the cost of the privilege last week that brought in the Though his main interests now find some $350,000 of the cost and the duration of its enjoy- It cannot be said that the "solid phalanx of Conservative are philosophical, Mr. Stapledon of the General Election. This ment are now curtailed. Par election results are very excit-members, and what used to be did not read a serious philophi represents payments to return lament is now elected for five ing or even very interesting an interval of days is now, with cal book until he was over 30ing officers and other costs maid years. The first batch of figures in-motors to rush the boxes in im-His own theory is that he remain by the Treasury

Money is still a big factor in dicated that the verdict would mediately still a matter offed mentally, in the nineteenth cen- The candidates will be respon the fortunes of political parties. he, as we said the other day, hours The only exception was tury until the war

fsible for spending roughly. The party with plenty of cash that the National Government in 1885, after the grant of the Mr. Stapledon lives in the corn-1 £750,000.

starts with an initial advantage would hold on with a diminish-vote to the agricultural labour try, spends some time in making The remaining £900:000 wm irr fhat it can devise more ela- ed but adequate majority" The er, when Conservative gains in electric motorboats for his son be found by the poitical parties borate methods of putting its landslide of the last election, the towns were more than bal-and daughter, and is an all-the- from their own coffers and from policy before the electors. with its Government majority anced by losses in the villages year-round sea-bather.

generous donors who are pref of nearly 450, could not be re-But after that assertion of in-

They Foot The Bill pared to back their political peated, and it would not be dividual judgment the labourer

Candidates are limited by law faith with cash. healthy if it could. Anything has tended to consider that his

in the amount of their expendi- These estimates are neces-ture during the actual contest. like a prospect of defeat would interests coincide with those of

sarily approximate. If they Roughly, it takes £700 to put have had to be indicated by the squire rather than with the

The moon, a scientist says, prob-| landslide in the opposite direc-Trade Union organiser, who at the earth. Who can blame it?

ably throws back radio waves from are borne out the next election MP after the name of a Con

will not be unduly expensive. tion, of which there is no sign that time worked for the Liber-

servative and $450 for a So-

at

There are

cialist. The legal maximum. all:

some als. The failure of the Liberal

Rapid

The General Election of 1931, expenditure permitted to a CRT- diminished majorities, but it is Party to evolve a policy that A Scotsman - and an only the result that counts, and would retain the enthusiasm of were sailing up the Firth of Forthernment its record majority, ties, and 5d in boroughs.

America which gave the National Gov-didate is 6d. per elector in coun- not the size of the majority that election in the country dis- Coming to that wonderful struct cost in candidates expenses This is accounted for under The "Labour Gains" are cases tricts was one of the main rea-the Forth bridge, the American skid

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Figures For 1931-

in which Labour lost what sons for their declining fartines to his friend, Say, Sandy, what's £654,105, and the Treasury such headings as a fee to the seemed to be safe seats that The Labourites have always in that funny little bit of fretwork up spent £290,000. What the poli-agent, payment of clerks, expen- have now returned to their old serted in their programme some Sandy replied: "Ah dina ken, da is their secret

tical parties spent in propaganditure on printing stationery, calour Mr. Clynes, for exam items to catch the agricultural

public meetings and committee Only on five occasions since rooms, together with a sum for ple, who at one time led the vote, but they have never been

the Corrupt Practices Act of the personal expenses. Labour Party, made his entry taken seriously, For what the

Many can into political life sensationally countryside wants is high prices "I really think you should apolo-eighties put a control on the didates return nothing under by defeating the Right Honour for food, through high protec-abber stamp

gise for saying tum sumator is cascade of cash which drenched this last head, and many more able A. J. Balfour, who was then tion if need be, and no Labour why, my dear fellow, I just said of the candidates and the State Mr. Maxton, the Left Wing

the hustings, have the expenses only nominal sums. the Conservative leader, by candidate would get elected in the senator'; I didn't say your sencombined exceeded £1,000,000. Socialist, gets into Parliament over 3,000 votes, and had held the towns if he did not make it stor There are lots of senators. The difference between the cost more cheaply than any of the the seat since, until the last "a plank" to lower the cost of you know." election. His return was only living. So long as the Conser who is a rubber stamp."

"Yes, but ours is the one, I'm of those two items on the last 614- other members. At the to be expected, and it will be a vatives hold their own more or

year-before-and-the first-year lest election he was entitled to after the passing of the Cor spend £840. His bill was £38. very good thing that the Laleas in the towns, they are sure

The Natural Thing

rupt Practices Act was OVER Party of their majority in Parliament.

Candidates' expenses do not bour Parliamentary

“You have a great gift of the gab £700,000. should be strengthened to main- It will be quite other questions When you speak, people must listen

necessarily come out of their The highest total reached by own pockets. The wealthy" tain its own policy against the that will dominate the new open-mouthed.” Trade Unions when necessary. House

these items in the last 50 years among them may meet the was £1,295,782 in the first offwhole bill Most of the money the two elections of 1910, for others has to be found by an obstruction at Salisbury Road

The next highest was in 1929, their parties. A fairly common. near the Star Ferry wharf at 2 when the amount was 1.213-arrangement among. Conserva am. on October 24; and (b) fail-507

tives is for the individual and Commodore C. G. Sedgwick re-i ing to produce his driver's li-le "Tolerable Sun”.

the party to share the cost in son, who dwarfs the other pro tamed to the Colamy by train yer col appeared for the prosecution. test in Yorkshire in which Lord

¡cence. Traffic-Inspector A. Ni- One hundred years ago a con-equal proportions, minent men both in ability and terday, after paying a courtesy

(Contioned on Psae 113 energy. He is at present, of call at Canton.

It is never popular for a party to be dictated to by any out-

side organisation. There is

| little doubt that the future leader of Labour has been again. returned in Mr. Herbert Morri-

course, the Chairman of the

London County-Consell, which

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

cases of typhoid fever were

has kept him usefully buy. He notified as having occurred in the is also the real author of the Colony during the 24 hours ended immense London traffic organ-on Thursday. isation, with its £60,000,000|g

capitalisation. It was a curious It is announced that a manne set of chances that made Mr. quin parade will be held at Lane George Cadbury, whom person-Crawford's Salon on Monday, fally everyone likes into a leader commencing at 11 am.

who was expected to express

opinions on dozens of subjects There will be a dinhar dance at that had never before engaged the Repulse Bay Hotel to-day his attention.

and's tea dance to-morrow. The

With a big vote for the Air last bus will leave Repulse Bay at Force already approved, and 1 am and a half-hourly service aviation growing from day to will operate on Sunday afternoon. day more important, it is a pity:

that Sir Malcolm Campbell A European : boy," Kenneth failed to hold what was a fairly Thompson, residing at No. 1 Gun) safe seat. Not many notable Club-Hall, was admitted to the sportsmen-seem to have been Kowloon Hospital on Thursday lucky, but, of course, they are suxering from cuts to his hands much more likely to stand for and legs caused when he fell on rural than for urban consti- broken glass at Pine Tree Road. tuencies. But the central con

stituency of Manchester, once The Civil Service Cricket Club carried by Mr. Winston Chur-is holding its annual prize-giving chill for Liberalism, during and Children's Christmas Tree on his brilliant and successful December 25 for members and career as a Liberal, has elected their children. Tea will be served the County Cricket Captain, at 3.30 pm and the Mr. Eckersley, a new recruit to of prizes and toys from politics And Oxford has re-mas Tree will take pin mained true to B. C. Bourne,

one of the most charming men Mr. Butler, residing in Parliament, who not only Kimberly stroked the Oxford Eight to the police victory several times, but for vate years coached it, also to victory. Bhad He is renowned as the author with of the famous slogan: When you're dead, spurt.

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