FEDERATION AND STATE.
THE SURPLUS REVENUES. JMOMENTART CONSTERNATION. (Received 10.26- a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. ' Consternation has-been caused in the various State Treasuries owing to the '. Federal Treasurer issuing instructions ' not to pay. any balances of.revenue back to the States for the month of May or any later period until further notice. Sir John Forrest (W.A.) raised the question in the House of Representatives and declaredd it would be a violation of i the constitution, an arbitrary illegality calculated to embarrass State finances. Sir Wm. Lyne, Federal Treasurer, explained that he hd hoped the Surplus Revenue Bill, which deals, with these balances, would have been passed. As the bill was not yet law, the money would be paid in the usual way. Sir Wm. was heckled as to his intentions,, but declined to be drawn.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 129, 30 May 1908, Page 5
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