NOW CALM

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1932, Page 8

NOW CALM

PEACE IN N.S.AV,

GENERAL SENSE OF RELIEF

SYDNEY, May 19.

It is no exaggeration to say that the atmosphere, in New South Wales since the Lang Government was .sent about its business lias not been unlike that of the first Armistice Day, when, after the long years of tragic conflict, peace fell like a benediction on a troubled world. Everywhere in New South Wales there lias been an inexpressible sense of relief, after the nightmare of the last few years, and especially the last month or two. This sense of relief is not something impalpable; it is something which can be felt, and which has expressed itself in a brighter and healthier note in trade and commerce. The fear complex has disappeared; to-day a spirit of cohfifience is abroad. i

MR LANG’S POSITION.

. No one was probably more glad over the position forced by the Governor (Sir Philip Game) than Mr Lang himself. He could not gracefully retire from a conflict of his own creation; the Governor’s action allowed him to get out of a tight and an absolutely hopeless position. Outwitted'at last by the Prime Minister (Mr Lyons), who never deviated a hair’s breadth from his resolute line of attack, Air Lang was inextricably enmeshed. ’The hour /brings forth the man; it producer! him ih Mi- Lyons in this great constitutional crisis. Mr Lang must have realised the. stark folly of his Mortgage'? Taxation Bill. IS till, it will Jielp in the political windowdressing at the coming election. Mr Lang probably got the shock of his life when the Bill negotiated the Upper House with a narrow Labour majority. STRAIN ON THE GOVERNOR.

It is safe to say that an enormous load has now been lifted from the iGovernor’is mind. A frail man phyisicially, he was showing clearly signs of the terrible strain of the position. Governors of New South. AA 7 ales have been unfortunate in the delicate political situations and crisis into which .they have been drawn', and Sir Philip Game has had to share the unhappy lot of not a few of them. That the post is not a sinecure, and not merely am ornamental one, has been revealed eloquently, especially in recent years.