N.S.W. POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1920, Page 3

N.S.W. POLITICS.

REPLY TO CENSUKE MOTION. Bs Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyiiuht. Sydney, August 12. Mr. Storey (Premier), replying to the censure motion, said lie wanted no vote of Nationalists or Progressives who were not favorable to the victimised strikers of 1917 reviving another eliince to earn an honest living. He was himself unable to attend the farewell to Archbishop Mannix, but would not have*hesitated to pay a tribute to any gentleman holding a high office, irrespective of his opinions. Up to the time of his departure from Australia Archbishop Mannix had said nothing objectionable. He expressed the opinion that the subsequent action of the British Government was instigated by Mr. Hughes. Defending Mr. Justice Ewing's report, he said that no one would sentence a prisoner to fifteen years' imprisonment on the word a scoundrel, adding that the previous Government induced Scully to leave Australia by offering a large sum of money and a free passage; also the Government kept him for a year and dictated what he should say. - Mr. Wenrne, (he Progressive leader, announced that he was voting with the Opposition.. He would oppose any effort to replace the strikers at 'the expense of loyalists. The debate was adjourned.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.