NEW STATES MOVEMENT
REPORT OF COMMISSION. AN ADVERSE DECISION. Pt«aa Aa«oci»Uon —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, May 6. Cabinet has made available the report of the New States Commission, which finds that the creation of any new State is impracticable and undesirable. A minority report says that a new State in the north is practicable, but under the existing conditions undesirable. Cabinet has not made a decision on the findings of the Commission. Speaking at Sydney on Tuesday, Dr Earle Pago (the Federal Treasurer) stated that in the next 10 years there would be three new States in Australia. One would be m Northern New South Wales, and the other two in Northern and Central Queensland. Dr Page said that his experience in the United States had only strengthened his conviction of the necessity of now States for Ausralia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19474, 8 May 1925, Page 7
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