REFERENDUM ISSUES
STATE DEBTS CARWED,
FEDEEAI FINANCE AGREEMENT EEJECTED. By T»l»»raiih—Press Auoditlon-Coimlf al (Etc. April 29, 0.5 a.m.) ■ Melbourne, April 28. In connection with tho Federal referendums on the questions of altering the Commonwealth Constitution to give effect to the financial agreement and the transfer of State debts, the counting of the votes is not yet. complete, but' the following is officially regarded as practically final: The financial agreement between the Commonwealth (then represented by the resigned Deakin-Cook. Government) and the States, under which the Braddon clause in the Constitution was to be replaced by ah arrangement that the Commonwealth should pay the States 255. per head of population per annum, is defeated, the margin of votes against, it being ..;.....■...., ..,. : .'. 26,568 The proposal that the State debts shall be transferred to the Commonwealth is carried, the'margin of votes in'its'favour being 127,610 The voting of the' various States on the two questions is as under: 'Financial Debt Agreement. Transfer. New South Wales No No Victoria ' ; • No ' Yes ■ " Queensland :. No " Yes South Australia ... Yes Yes Tasmania Yes Yea Western Australia Yes Yes
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 804, 29 April 1910, Page 5
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180REFERENDUM ISSUES Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 804, 29 April 1910, Page 5
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