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LORD STRICKLAND’S EVIDENCE (United Pres® Association—By JElectru Telegraph—OopyrigH). (Received this day at 10 a.m.l MALTA, April 26. Giving evidence to the. Royal Commission on the constitution, headed by Lord Askwith, Lord Strickland filed a ministerial statement ascribing the present situation to a virulent campaign against the Constitution Party Nationalist abuse of their ministerial majority, and systematic abuse of religion (for political purposes. Lord Strickland urged these circumstances should not serve as a pretext for constitutional withdrawal an'u reversion to a Crown colony would pr.ove disastrous The proposed reduction of the Senate from 17 to 12 he said matters not. Italian was the national language and should be raised to the standard of official language with English as tlio Empire language.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1931, Page 5
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