SILENCE BROKEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 196, 12 April 1932, Page 5

SILENCE BROKEN

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mr. attackfs ^ona fides of commonwealth action state s.taffs defy act • ! * ' \ • . '

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

Rec. April 11, 11 p.m. SYDNEY;, Monday. The Premier, Mr. J. T. Lang, hroke his ' silence ' to-night. BrOadcas'tihg from the Trades Hill, 2KY radio statiort," he dea'lt with' the situhtion in r'eghrd to' the "rights of' this 'State and the Commonwealth 'Government." Mr. Lang said if-'was not!i-riiOriey that the "Commonwealth want'ed. It was bare-faced attempt to embarass the Government an'd' rem'oVe it from ; office. • • ' Mr. Lang said that his Government would win if it kept on fighting. It certainly was not' going 'tb" Wehken. : Accordihgly he tirged Labour support- : ers not to do so. The New South Wales Government had, he" said, taken up the attitude that it was temporarily unable to meet its overseas debt and requifed a postponement. Mr. * A. C. Willis, th'6 Agent-Gerieral in London, had tried to arrange for a postponement, But had been unable to do so "owing to Commonwealth interference. The Common- j vtealth was noW anxious to' "take it ! ouf of the people's hides." t ' ■ Mr. Lang conterided that Great Bri- j tainj France, Belgium' and Rumania | were not meeting their' interesf, ! though they . had won the war 'and ; the countries which had lost "the war had obtained a postponemenf. c . * Insfructions to Officers Mr. Lang has instructed the railway and tramway officials to pay' all cash received direct to the State Treasury and nbt to hank it. Railway revenue amounts to approximately £250,000 k' week and tram reVentie to £50,000. 'Railway officers on the salaried staff passed a resolution defyirig the: Cdmmoriwbalth: '.'We recoghise ' the State 'Governnrent as "otir only m'aster," the resolution feads.