ABOLITION BILL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18604, 1 February 1926, Page 9

ABOLITION BILL.

PROBABLE CRISIS.

NEW LINE OF ATTACK. (BY CABLE— parss ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) iACSTHALIAN N.Z. CAELo ASSOCIATION.) SIDNEY, January 30. Referring to the suggested mow by -lio opponents of the Abolition Bill to organise a petition to the Governor to dissolve Parliament, Mr J. T. Lang says that it is now apparent that the Nation;: . icians, assisted by tho Nationalist Press, are prepared to bring about a first-class constitutional crisis in their defence of tho Legislative Council.

Tho first move of the Nationalists, he says, was to incite the Nationalist majority in the destroy all Labour Bills not approved by Mr T. R. Bavin and his colleagues. It was hoped tho Government would either meekly accept the dictation of the life-nominees or throw tho country into the turmoil and expense of another General Election. The Government, however, emphatically declined to accept dictation cither from an undemocrati. and non-representative Council or from the leaders of a political party so decisively rejected by the electors six months ago. It appears that the new line of attack is to dictate to the Governor and insolently to instruct him how best to give effect to the policy of the Nationalists.