STATE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE
OPENED AT BRISBANE. Brisbane, May 28. The Premiers' Conference lias "opened. The proceedings ii ]ri\ati . Hr. Kidston (Ou nsland 1 ruuier) i presiding.
STATE DEBTS AND BORROWING. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS. Received 29th, 1.17 a.m. • Brisbane, May 2S. At the Premiers' Conference, Sir Joiia Forrest said he had authority for saving that if the Conference failed to come j to some arrangement with regard to taking over the debts as a whole, it ws the intention of the Government to proceed te carry out its power- under the Constitution to take over the two hundred and two'million it had a right 10. It was desirable at the present time to ask the States to undertake for all time not to borrow in London except through the Commonwealth, that arrangement !0 continue untili the 31st December, liP.fl,
on which date it « i ropos Itl t 1 amount and ha i of ann l 1 | avi by the Common en 1 to th St, I should be re< on 11 re 1 The *- t should limit their lorroungluiin£! t! I period named, to th" \ustraMn n arke
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 May 1907, Page 3
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188STATE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 May 1907, Page 3
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