QUEENSLAND'S LOAN.
BRITISH LABOUR OFFERS. (Received 10 a.m.i BRISBANE, this day. In connection with tbe fortbcoming general elections, the Labour Government is making a determined effort to force the question of the British financiers' recent refusal to absorb tbe Queensland loan to the front, to the exclusion of more pressing political and national matters. Mr. E. G. Theodore (Premier) claims that the election issue is the maintenance by the people of their self-governing rights or the dictation of the domestic policy of the.State Government by London capitalists. Speaking at Maryborough, he said that while in London representatives of the principal unions in England offered him a loan of three millions, which he declined, preferring, that the Labour party in Queensland should fight its own battles. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.^
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 5
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