GREATER POWERS.
EXTENSION SOUGHT. OPPOSITION TO PROPOSAL. United Press Association—Copyright.) CANBERRA, April 10. The Federal Government’s three referendum Bills providing for complete power to amend the constitution, for power to control industrial affairs, and for control over trade and commerce, have all passed the second reading. Western Australian and Tasmanian members declared that there was no hope whatever of the first proposal for giving the Federal Parliament power to alter the Constitution at . will being carried, as the electors were not prepared to allow the Federal Government to dynamite tlie Constitution. Rather would Western Australia and Tasmania prefer that the. Federal Parliament be abolished. HOUSE PASSES THE MEASURE. NO AMENDMENT MADE.
(Received This Dav. 12.10 p.m.) CANBERRA. This Day. The House of Representatives road the Constitution Act Amendment Bill the third time unamended.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 154, 11 April 1930, Page 5
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