WILL CONTINUE.
Menzies Government If Fusion Fails. PARTY NEGOTIATIONS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 6. The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. R. G. Menzies, speaking at the declaration of the poll in his electorate, said that if negotiations for a national Government failed it would be a calamity for Australia and a calamity to which he would resolutely refuse to contribute. "If we do not secure a national Government," said Mr. Menzies, "this Government will continue."
The Prime Minister added that in the House of Representatives' election the Government had received liberal support in every State except one. In spite of the results in New South Wales, the Government actually made headway in five States.
Mr. Menzies claimed that the Government was still much the largest group in Parliament. It had won 10 of the 1!) Senate seats and had swept the poll in five States out of six. The total votes cast for the Government exceeded the total cast for all the Labour parties by 120,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 238, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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