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RESIGNATION OF FEDERAL MINISTER AT VARIANCE WITH CABINET COLLEAGUES. DEFENCE AND THE INSURANCE ACT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. R. G. Menzies) who has resigned from the Cabinet, has also resigned the Deputy-Leadership of the Parliamentary United Australia Party. Mr Menzies issued a statement that since September he had been at variance with a majority of the Cabinet on several matters of moment, particularly the question of defence preparedness, but had refrained from resigning in the interests of unity. He described Cabinet’s decision to repeal the provisions of the National Insurance Act relating to old age and widows’ pensions as “the last but weighty straw.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1939, Page 6
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117LAST STRAW Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1939, Page 6
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