THE DOUBLE DISSOLUTION
AUSTRALIA’S POSITION. [isr Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.40 a.m.) ' Sydney, June 25. In the Senate the President presented Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson’s reply covering the refusal of a Senator’s request for the production of correspondence dealing with the dissolution. The Governor-General points out that its production was not only contrary to usual practises, hut would be abreach of the confidential relations between the King’s representative and the Constitutional Ministers. He adds that for the Senator’s information the statement of Mr Cook made in the House covered the grounds of the dissolution, and he also informs the Senate that with the advice of his Ministers he cannot comply with the request to send six Constitution amendment hills to another referendum.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 54, 25 June 1914, Page 5
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123THE DOUBLE DISSOLUTION Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 54, 25 June 1914, Page 5
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