Spectator's Notebook
FOR an aimless occupation on part of a wet Whit Monday I recommend browsing through the return of general election expenses now pub- lished for all candidates. Most money seems to have been spent at Epping, where the amounts and votes received were: Lab. £1,249 (34,991) Con. £1,319 (31,753)
Lib. £1,248 .(12,093)
Poor value indeed when one studies the splen- did performance of Mr. Hayward, the Farmers' candidate at Banbury, who spent no less than £6 and collected 534 votes. The breakdown of Mr. Hayward's assault on Westminster shows that he spent £1 on printing and stationery and £5 on 'miscellaneous matters.' At nearly ninety votes to the pound it's a pity he didn't lash out a little more. The only expenditure, or rather lack of it, which seemed of any political sig- nificance, was the Labour candidate's £381 spent at Orpington. This is a long, long way out of line with 'normal' expenditure and Mr. Lubbock must have been gratified to see how little was spent.
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