THE REFERENDUM
AND THE LABOUR PARTY. In, the course of an address, at Oamperdown, Victoria, Mr Scullin, Federal M.H.R.j referred to tire intention of the Labour Party to again submit the referendum questions. The Labour Forty, believing it to beriglit ttliat the Federal Parliannent should have the powers asked for in the referendum, would again ask the electors to give those powers to the Ooinrnon wealth. The opponents of the party predicted that the referendum would again be defeated, and that (this time the Labour party would go dlown with it. That party was prepared to risk going down, which showed that it was sinoe're in asking for what i,t believed to be right. He thought that this ®time tlie people would give to the Commonwealth the rtowers asked for,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10540, 24 January 1912, Page 5
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130THE REFERENDUM Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10540, 24 January 1912, Page 5
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