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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



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THE FAMOUS SAUCER TRACK AT BROOKLANDS. 



A 25-30 hp. Sunbeam car which broke all records from two to twelve hours. It covered well 

 over 1000 miles in eleven hours, and averaged throughout the test 97.55 miles per hour. Photo, 

 taken by the Topical Press during the test. 



sider will again be sent up from the 

 Lower House. 



The N.S.W. Elections. 



New South Wales swung" over to 

 Liberalism in the Federal Election, and 

 it was generally anticipated that it 

 would follow the same course in the 

 State poll on December 6th. Confident 

 Liberals anticipated a majority of ten, 

 almost all thought they would return 

 at least two stronger than their oppon- 

 ents. Amongst Labour members there 

 appeared a general feeling that the 

 Liberals would win. The results are not 

 yet complete, and will not be for three 

 weeks, but Labour has now 41 seats, and 

 the Liberals 34. Only one Independent 

 has been returned. Fourteen seats re- 

 maia to be decided on the second ballot. 

 To have a majority the Liberals must 

 win II, but the Labourites would carry 

 the election if they capture only 5 of 



these seats. It is very significant that, 

 despite the undoubtedly reckless finance 

 of the Holman Government, despite the 

 usual swing of the pendulum, despite 

 the result of the Federal election, New 

 South Wales remains Labour. The pro- 

 bability is that the Mother State will 

 continue Labour until hard times set 

 The most significant thinsr about 



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the election is the crushing defeat of 

 Mr. Beeby and his party. There is no 

 room for an Independent or a third 

 party in Australian politics to-day. 

 They are crushed between the upper 

 and the nether millstones of the party 

 machines. These elections offer a strik- 

 ing illustration of the superiority of the 

 preferential vote to the second ballot. 

 Had the former been in force, the result 

 would have been known within a couple 

 of days of the poll. As it is the state 

 of parties will not be ascertained for 

 nearly three weeks, and during that time 



