ANTI-LANG LAWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7

ANTI-LANG LAWS.

Attachment of State Revenue

By Commonwealth. CHEQUES NOW BEING CASHED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A bill providing for the suspension of the Financial Agreements Enforcement Act and the Financial Emergency Act was passed by the Federal Parliament. All proclamations, regulations, notices and directions issued by the Commonwealth for the attachment of State revenue, and a bill nullifying the Mortgages Taxation Bill, passed by the State Parliament, are suspended under the bill.

The State Ministry will investigate without delay the Lang appointments to the transport services, particularly the appointment of Mr. Goode.

Sixty thousand family endowment cheques, representing a sum of £70,000, have been sent out by the new Government. These represent the payment which fell due on April 2G. The payments which were due on May 10, and those which fell due on May 14 will be posted by Friday, representing a total of £140,000. Cheques, which were sent out on April 12 and which have not yet been met by the banks, are now being cashed.

The Minister of Education, Mr. D. Drummond, announced that the deferred payments of widows' pensions and child we'lfare allowances, totalling £100,000, would be available immediately. Ministers Forgo Salaries. The Premier of New South Wales, Mr. B. S. Stevens, will deliver his Government's policy speech early next week. The new Ministers have agreed to forgo their Ministerial salaries.

The general election campaign will begin immediately. The facts that the supporters of the' United Australia party have undertaken not to contest eeats hitherto held by members of the Country party, and that an amicable working agreement has been reached, have caTised the utmost satisfaction in antiLabour circles.

Eleven seats in the Legislative Assembly must be won from Labour in order to give the Stevens' Government a bare working majority. At least 10 seats are expected to be won from Labour in the country electorates and possibly five in the metropolitan area. The first acts of Mr. Stevens' Cabinet included the removal of the Lang Government's restrictions on trade, industry and transport. Compulsory unionism also was vetoed.

The Minister of Labour, Mr. J. Dunningham, ie to visit Canberra in order to try to induce the Federal Government to allocate to New South Wales its full share of the unemployment vote of £1,200,000.