LANGS ANXIETY.
PRESSED FOR MONEY.
Letter to Loan Council and a
Denial.
APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE.
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received VZ noon.)
SYDNEY, this day'
The "Sydney Morning Herald" publishes a letter which the Premier, Mr. J. T. Lang-, sent to the Loan Council on November 27, appealing for assistance.
"My" particular anxiety at the present time," he wrote, "is to find means of obtaining the necessary cash to carry on during the months of December and
January."
The "Herald" also publishes Mr. Lang's reply to a question in Parliament hi which the Premier denied that he had made an application to tho Loan Council for assistance, but added that "officials may be going on with negotiations about which I know nothing."
LOST OPPORTUNITY.
Tasmanian Ministers and
Loan Council.
MELBOURNE PACT FAVOURED.
(Received 12 noon.)
HOBART, this day.
Regret that finality had not been reached at the recent meeting of the Federal Loan Council in dealing with the serious financial position of the Conmicmrpalth was expressed by Ministers on their return to Hobart,
The Premier, Mr. J. C. McPhee, said that if the States and Commonwealth had kept to the Melbourne agreement to balance all Budgets in Australia, by this time the country would have turned the corner and a large sum of new money would have been available for Australia ill London.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1931, Page 7
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