WEAR AND TEAR. POLITICAL LIFE IN AUSTRALIA.
A COMPARISON. SPEECH BY LORD CHELMSFORD. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 25, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Lord Chelmsford, Governor of New South Wales, is leaving to-day on a visit to England. At a dinner tendered him by the Government, His Excellency declarei that public life in Australia imposes physical weav.' and tear, which is a menace to good Government. In Fiiigland, he said, Ministers did not have charge of public departments and did not pay the same attention to details as colonial Ministers. Since 1850 there had been eleven English Prim© Ministers. Three were living, the others hl l passed th© allotted span, and four nad passed the age of eighty. Here Ministers were continually breaking down.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 96, 25 April 1911, Page 7
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