N.S .W. POLITICS
liter, house reform. REFERENDUM AGREED TO ON CASTING NOTE. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 11, 1.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. U. The State Legislative Assembly, m committee to-night, agreed to the holding of u referendum on May o on the question of reform of the Legislative Council. Labor members sought to have the reterondum put off until the General Election at the end of the year, thus saving a considerable sum of money. The Premier, however, said he was afraid that if Labor were then returned an attempt would be made to abolish the Upper I louse altogether, as was tried some years ago by Mr. Lang. Oil to-mght’s dim ion the voting was equal, and the Government was victorious only on the casting vote of the chairman of committees.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19300214.2.43
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11131, 14 February 1930, Page 5
Word Count
136N.S.W. POLITICS Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11131, 14 February 1930, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in