WIDESPREAD DISCONTENT
(Received 9, 8.46 a.m.) LONDON, March 8. The Times, in a ieader says: — "Ther© is no need to accept, without important reservations, Mr Lyons' diotuin. The voting on the Commonwealth referendum reveals an amazing anti-Fed-eral spirit. There are other causes for the decision, although one amendment would doubtless have been aecepted if it had not been for widespread discontent, especially among the smaller States. over the working of the Federal eystem- Neither amendment could be said to give the Government any power it was not believed to possess." The Daily Telegraph, in a leader, eays: — "The referendum is a device which usually favours no ehange. It gives eiectors an opportunity to remmd the Federal Government that they and liot the Ministers are the masters, and as an adverse verdiet does not entail overthrow of the Government, a regiative vote can be casfc with a light ifceart,"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 45, 9 March 1937, Page 5
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148WIDESPREAD DISCONTENT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 45, 9 March 1937, Page 5
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