FEDERAL POLITICS.
IN OFFICE; NOT IN POWER. ACTION OF OPPOSITION CRITICISED. (Received La6t Night, 10 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, August 28. The Hon. Joseph Cook, addressing the Inter-State Conference, said the Liberals were the Government in office, but not in power. It was impossible for the Parliament to be of long duration, but the Government did not intend to allow the Opposition to force it to appeal to the country before it was prepared to go.*j Referring to the action of the Labour majority in the Senate, in taking business out of the hand's of the Government in connection with the appointment of a Select Committee, Mr Cook declared that"the Government did not intend to stand that sort of thing long. GOING STRONG. - THE CENSURE DEBATE. (Received this morning 12.40 O'clock.) MELBOURNE, August 28. The censure debate ia going strong, and there are. indications that it will not finish before to-morrow, if then.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume xxv, Issue 10713, 29 August 1913, Page 5
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151FEDERAL POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume xxv, Issue 10713, 29 August 1913, Page 5
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