AUSTRALIAN UNITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81857, 4 October 1906, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN UNITY.

STATE GRIEVANCES AGAINST THE COMMONWEALTH. Received 3rd, 10.56 p.m. Perlh, October 3. The State Treasurer, referring to the motion carried at the Siate Premiers' Conference, in favour of die termination of the book-keeping method of the Commonwealth at the end of five years, and that three-fourths of the Customs revenue lie returned on a per capita basis, said such a proposal would rob Westralia <■! £300,000 per annum. It savoured ' i brigandage. They must not exploit "Western Austra ! ia for the benefit of their own Spates. If they insisted on taking a stand, which no one could consider to be an honest stand, such action might eventually be taken as might shake ; he •foundations of the Commonwealth. He would give much to preserve tinunity of the Commonwealth because ho could sec the nations of ih<- Far East were growing in power, population*, wealth, and civilisation, and he could readily conceive," if the people of Australia did not stand together as one Commonwealth and one Empire. they would have something to fejr from the aggrandisement of the nations referred to, but the terms of tincontinuity of the Commonwealth must be equitable to the Stales.