KING PETITIONED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 272, 12 July 1932, Page 3

KING PETITIONED

AUSTRALIAN'S REQUEST • THAT GOVERNMENT BE DISSOLVED. In view of what has recently happened in New South Wales, it is of particular interest to now learn from a London paper that a request was made to the King to dissolve the New South Wales Parliament. It took the form of a petition to which many thousands of names were attached, and transmitted through the Governor, Air Vice-Admiral Sir Philip Game. The petition commences with an assurance of loyalty to the Thron deplores the repudiation of debts, -xnd makes grave charges against the So cialist Ministry of New South Wales of which Mr. J. T. Lang was Premier, including the accusation that Ministers had protected Communist and other disloyal elements in the State. The signatories pointed out that they had already presented a petition to the Governor to dissolve Parliament, "which such Governor neglee+s and declines to do," and adds, "Except by this appeal to Your Most Graeious Majesty, the people of this State have no means of protecting themselves against the grave infringements of their rights, which is threatened by th'e disruptive and disloyal Communist movement." It is understood, says the London paper, that the Dominion Office is considering what further action is to be taken in regard to the p'etition, but that it will, in due course, reach the King. It was organised by the anti-Com-munist New Guard Movement, and one member of the deputation who presented it to the Governor was Captain de Groot, who, a few days later, became famous as "the man who opened th'e Sydney Bridge," forestalling Mr. Lang.