FEDERAL CONVENTION.
Sydney, this day.
The Committee resumed this morning
Mr Line delivered a parochial speech, with protection as his theme, without contributing anything towards the solution of financial difficulties.
The Chairman wished to know whether discussion on protection was relevant to the question. Mr Line though it was, because in his opinion the whole difficulty in the way of federation was New South Wales freetrade policy in regard to handing the railways to an inter-state commission. They might as well give them to the Federal Government.
Sir John Forrest said the financial difficulty was so great that he thought it impossible to lay down a scheme in the present Bill that would be fair and equitable to all the colonies. He thought there was a growing desire to leave the problem of tbe Federal Parliament, which would have more information to work on.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 208, 7 September 1897, Page 8
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