15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 2

At the New South Wales General Election last Saturday the

Labour Government of Mr. Lang was decisively defeated. A few months ago the Labour Party was so disunited that Mr. Lang seemed to have little chance of success, but he cleverly reunited it, and at the last moment nobody could predict with confidence what the result of the elections would be. It turned out, however, that Mr. Lang, in purchasing the general support of Labour, had finally estranged the balancing voters. 'Even his Budget surplus of one and a half million pounds and his seductive promise of child endowment did not avail him. After all, the surplus was due to very heavy taxation, and if his Government had been returned the taxation would have become worse.