N.S.W. POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1930, Page 5

N.S.W. POLITICS

A DRAMATIC SITUATION. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this dav at 1.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 24. A dramatic echo of the Upper House case was revealed by the “Daily Pictorial” which staten that Mr Lang has temporarily prevented the Chief Justice from becoming Lieutenant Governor. The paper says that anticipating the time when the Government’s policy might require a more radical Lieutenant Governor, Air Lang countermanded the arrangements for swearing in Sir Philip Street, by the Governor-in-Council. He intimated by a special Premier’s minute that “The Premier did not desire His Honour should be sworn in.” Consequently apart from “the dorman commission” resting on the Chief Justiceship, New South Males is now without a Lieutenant Governor. Although Si't' Philip ‘Street holds a commission from the King this cannot become operative until the Executive Council approves.

Mr Lang’s unprecedented intervention took place two days before the Full Court over which Street- presided. began the hearing of the Legislative Council injunction ease.

With Street’s retirement from the Bench, Street’s dormant commission would pass to his successor whose ap'oointment Mr Lang apparently anticipated will he made by the present Labour Government.