COAL SUBSIDY
OPPOSED BY VICTORIAN. PREMIER. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right). MELBOURNE, March 6. The Victorian Premier, Sir William McPherson, told a deputation to-day that if the Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Bruce, -persists in granting a Federeal bounty to the coal industry, in order to keep it going in Now South Wales it will be made a test matter in the High Court, as he (McPherson) believes Mr Bruce’s action is unconstitutional. The V ictorian taxpayers were not going to submit to money ueing taken from their pockets to assistcoal mining in another State, when a similar concession was not available for the Victorian coal mines.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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107COAL SUBSIDY Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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