FEDERAL POLITICS.
THE ADDRESS-IX-REPLY DEBATE, i Received 4th, 1.1 a.m. c Melbourne, July 4. t Mr J. Cook, acting Leader of the Op- t position, resumed the debate on the Ad- t ie dress-in-Reply in a characteristic speech, r r The mail contract, he 3aid, was consu- i r j mated bungling. The representative of £ j the sj-ndicate had had the loan of the 1 Government for twelve months. Dealing I !_ with the Imperial Conference, he said the i present relations with the motherland were entirely satisfactory. What was i to be gained by the new Secretariat ar- i i rangement. Nothing could be more lu- f dicrous than the Government's conduct 1 with regard" to the Naval Agreement, f Very few people opposed the agreement, * and there was no doubt the Government f majority wished to see it continued. a Sir W. Lyne, replying, said no time v e would be lost in submitting the tariff. ' n He defended the Government's action in 1 connection with the mail contract. 3
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 July 1907, Page 3
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171FEDERAL POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 July 1907, Page 3
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