 A controversy erupted in 1933 upon the establishment of a Lotteries Commission , to which Mann , along with John Scaddan and Legislative Council member Alec Clydesdale , were appointed . Several profitable newspaper competitions , including that of The Sunday Times , were prohibited due to being thinly disguised forms of gambling . In response , a Citizens ' Reform League was formed to defend the crosswords , and at the elections later that year , both Mann and Scaddan lost their seats — with Perth being won by former Labor Senator Ted Needham , who was to hold the seat until its abolition at the 1950 election , and North Perth for the following three years until his retirement . One sideline to Needham 's campaigns was watchmaker and jeweller William Murray , who had placed a public notice in The West Australian on 28 October 1930 stating that Parliament " has become an out @-@ of @-@ date instrument for achieving the will of Anglo @-@ Saxon peoples " and seeking names and addresses of anyone wishing to work towards overthrowing it — and then ran for election as a Nationalist in 1936 and 1943 . 
