FEDERAL POLITICS.
GRUMBLING AS -TO EXPENSE QH HIGH CQURT, •:*" MR REID’S ELECTIONEERING. CAMPAIGN, V • " ‘-y, - - By Electric Telegraph—Per Press' Association —Copyright.
SYDNEY,; March 134’-
The Attorney-General has made an important statement in connection With the controversy, as to the expensiveness of the High Court,- wbosia travelling expenses alone for fifteen months amounted to £3OOO, He considers that associates and - tipstaffs for each judge are out of pLacg and ho 5s taking steps to bring tfiSsC costs v. ithin more reasonable limits. There is also no precedent tor an- ambulatory High Court,. The Court should sit in Melbourne, but as the appeal business, in Sydney, has.gro.WnV ; (through the Court sitting there,, it would be necessary, to. -retrace its steps by degrees. Me Reid, in a speech ho his constituents, said that the policy, o£ ,t£s.' party he would lead in the next campaign would be anti-Socialism* Ht explained that he had cqme to; a[ understanding with Me Deakin., tha if* Parliament iwere dissolved befor the ordinary time, the Labor part; would be fought determinedly- If it lasted the" full term, sis months’ notice would bB given of the Mini? Serial attitude on .the fiscal qUf&sn tionV ,/•
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1404, 15 March 1905, Page 2
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