FEDERAL POLITICS
(Australian Press Association)
CANBERRA, April 10,
The Federal Public Works Committee recommends an expenditure of £40,000 towards the improvement ol one Mascot aerodrome, to make it worthy of the City of Sydney.
The Government's itliirco Referendum bills, providing (I) for complete power to amend the Constitution; (2) for power to control industrial/affairs, and (3) for control over trade and commerce, all passed their second reading to-day in the House.
West Australian and Tasmanian members declared there was no hope whatever of the first proposal, giving tlie Federal Parliament power to alter the constitution at will, being carried. They said electors were not prepared to allow the Federal Government to •uynainilc” the constitution. Rather would West Australia and Tasmania prefer that the Federal Parliament be abolished.
CANBERRA, April 10.
The Government has approved of an expenditure of £40,000 on the Mascot aerodrome.
FINANCIAL RECOVER Y
CANBERRA, April 10,
Hon E. G. Theodore, Federal Treasurer, in a statement on the loan position, said that of the sixty million conversion loan maturing next December, only eighteen ifii 1 lions are now required This was very gratifying. It provided a definite answer to the suggestion that Australia might have to seek overseas help in this connection. The Treasurer added: “In addition, wo have fully covered the March conversion, which has been greatly oversubscribed. Facts like these must help to enhance the credit of Australia. The Prime Minister, Air Scullin, replying to a question in the House of Representatives, said the cost of the Discovery’s Antarctic Expedition was almost nineteen thousand sterling. The future of the Expedition was under consideration.
N.S.AV. POLITICS
SYDNEY, April 9
The Premier, Mr T. Bavin, announced in the New South AVales Assemby that tlie Government has decided to postpone till "tite next .general election the referendum on the question of reforming the Upper House by making it elective.
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