NEW SOUTH WALES CRISIS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1926, Page 11

NEW SOUTH WALES CRISIS

ELECTION MAY BE POSTPONED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, Nov. 23. Mt. Bavin, reviewing the position, said: ’Tn spite of the inexplicable action and the extraordinary somersault of Mr. Loughlin and his friends, everyone will regard the position as satisfactory. It discloses that Mr. Lang’* ■» efforts to abolish the Upper House without appeal to the people has been finally defeeted. Hie lamentable Budget proposals for the taxation of the newspapers and the increase of the freights paid by counfty producers have been abandoned, and, most important of all, we, at the point of the bayonet, have secured an early election.” Received Nov. 23. 9 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 23. Having survived the censure motion, the Government Is making a desperate iffort to stave off the elections until Parliament has run its full term. A Minister said this may be accomplished by conceding Mr. Loughlin's demands for tile abandonment of the raid on the Main Roads Board’s funds, an 1 dropping the proposed publications tax. Mi. Loughlin states, however, his firm determination is to z foree an election within four months.