FEDERAL POLITICS
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this duv •»+, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 1. In the course of a speech on the Supply Bill in the Upper House, -Sir Joseph Carruthers said the name, ol Australia w? s stinking in the nostrils of the world. The crux of the financial position was contained in a clause of the Niemeyer agreement- providing that if all Parliaments agreed to carry it out an -undertaking would be given for the funding of the boating debt of Australia in London. If Air Lang had said lie would honour the agreement, the debt would have immediately been funded, and we would have bad no more trouble at present. The road the Government was following would result in disaster, which would put Australia back one hundred years. The Bill passc-d all stages.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1931, Page 5
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