AUSTRALIA'S AFFAIRS.
THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. MR BAVIN DEFENDS AGREEMENT. (UNITED PJIESS ASSOCIATION—BI SLECTRIC TBLEGBAFH—COrYMGfiT.) SYDNEY, September 27. The Premier (Mr T. R. Bavin) declared that if the Melbourne Premiers' Conference agi-eomcnt were repudiated by New South Wales, the financial and oconomio results would be a national disaster. Those who retained employment in the event of such a disaster would have to accept heavy reductions of salaries and wages. All the State Governments were agreed that unless this agreement were adopted, it would be impossible for Australia to meet its obligations in London. Further, it would be impossible for the Governments to find money in Australia to meet their obligations, oven for salaries and wages, within a very short time. The making of this agreement, therefore, saved Australia from a crisis which all the Premiers admitted was imminent. If that crisis had happened nothing was more certain than that there wfluld_ have been immediate chaos, not only in Government finance, but in private industries. The result would have been .financial panic, and for every one man unemnloyed to-day there would have been 10 or 20.
AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS. UNIFICATION OF GAUGES. (Received September 28th, 5.5 p.m.) BRISBANE. September 28. The first through train from Sydney arrived here on Saturday, marking the comolotion of the first section of Commonwealth-wide unification of gauges. The duration of the journey was reduced bv six hours and a fine stretch of coastal and mountain scenery was opened uo for travellers. The border was crossed in a tunnel. BY-ELECTION IN VICTORIA. NATIONALISTS GAIN VOTES. (Received September 28th, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, September 28. The election at Hawthorn to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sir William McPherson resulted: J. A. Gray (Nationalist) 11,957 W. H>. Hu'lse (Labour) ... 6,912 The Nationalists have gained over 3600 votes since the November elections.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20045, 29 September 1930, Page 11
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AUSTRALIA'S AFFAIRS.
Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20045, 29 September 1930, Page 11
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