A BALANCING FEAT.
PREMIER ;PEAKE LEADS A PERSONAL , MINORITY. IB! TELEOrtAPH—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COI"TRIGHT.) --. Adelaide,-; June: 5.' In forming a Ministry, Mr. Peako, the now State Premier, was thought to. have two courses open to him—ono boing to surrender the Premiership to the Labour party, and become lieutenant in a Labour Ministry!; the otkcr,boing to form a coalition with tho following of Mr. Riohard Butler (a former Minister in the Kingston and Jenkins Governments and now Leader of the Liberal Opposition). . v Mr. Peake, however, took a third course by ignoring both'the Labour arid Liberal partics, and, on the' strength of a following of eight, formed an Administration of his own.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 527, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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109A BALANCING FEAT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 527, 7 June 1909, Page 5
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