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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 107, 27 April 1908, Page 2

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VOiCINU AI'STUALIAN STATE UIUKVA.NCLS. DiSTUUSX OF LlliliitAL GOVERN-' JiEXX. COLONIAL I'OLiCY DOl'BTliD. lteeeived 2Gth, 0.0 p.m. LuiupJn, April 25. i\ir. T. l'riee, Premier 01 Australia, addressing Liiu l.iu'ipuol Xicl'onii Uiiii, said eight hours Australian worK equalled 10 lu England. lie said he feared the Liberals had eoiuamiiuited the Jnipeji'ial iiiovpnueiit; by forcing it into a narrow grove. Australians believed tile Liberals in England were lews friendly lo them than tltey oiiylit to be. lie complained that the tttute Premiers laid been excluded from the Colonial Conference. The Federal I Premier did not represent the whole Government functions.

He complained bitterly of the Imperial veto on the South Australian Bill refusing mining bases to Asiatics. The Liberal Government had no right to that connection to ask an Australian Government to substitute aliens for Asiatics, since colonists did not desire to exclude Europeans. Though South Australia had been described as insignificant, the State nevertheless meant to insist on its rights.

Australians felt that in their foreign policies, the Liberals did less good for the colonies than the Conservatives. f\Ve doubt the Liberals," lie said, "so far as their colonial policy is concerned, and think it advisable to call a council at which the Australian States should be able to do something with reVt gard to making the treaties which bound them. v~