FEDERAL POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1931, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS

DEPOSITION OF LANG MOOTED. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, April 25. Recent political events in New South Wales, culminating in*-, the Savings Bank sensation, have, it is stated, intensified bitterness against the Lang Administration. It is now reported that a section of his colleagues are seeking Mr Lang’s dismissal from Premiership, as, in the event of a sudden election, several country Labourites fear they will lose their seats. Mr Lang, meanwhile; remains silent. Ho will be difficult to shift. Having been appointed leader for the full session, lie cannot be. deposed .by the (Jfnucus, except with the sanction ot the Party’s Executive of the Trades Hall. Actually, lie has the powers of a, dictator. His friends declare that the talk of displacing him is purely propaganda, emanating from the Theodore party. , COMMENT ON AUSTRALIA (Received 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, April 26. The “Observer” under the heading, “Can Australia Wait,” says the political situation is growing more tense. The stream of bank credit threatens to run dry. Mr Theodore’s new bill taxing interest, will make a further Joan impossible. The treasurer evidentially hopes that a deadlock will convert the States to his inflation policy, but the Bill was countered by the blurting, blunt truth, when it said the federation was tottering to its fall.