Word: standerton
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...Capetown a woman who had given birth to a baby two hours before pushed her doctor aside and rode by taxi to vote. In Durban another woman arrived by ambulance, was carried on a stretcher into the polling hall. In Smuts's own constituency, Standerton, a septuagenarian Scot, recovering from a heart attack, insisted on voting for Smuts, collapsed and died before he could make his cross...
...leader, was defeated by a coalition of the Nationalists and Laborites, who will now have a majority of more than 20 in the new Parliament, occasioned little surprise. The personal defeat of the Premier at Pretoria West was also not unexpected. He is, however, to stand for reelection at Standerton in the Transvaal, that seat having been offered by a Colonel G. M. Claassen who is to resign...
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