STATE' RIGHTS.
V;,->-■■•' '■'" '' : MK.- BENT -ANDi''THE GONFERENCB"'OI |I • I'KEMIERS. I. BY lELEGRAPH—FRES3 ASSOCIATION"—COPTKIGni ' Melbourne, April 24 v Mr.-. T, >Bentj Bremior.'ot ' Victoria, rcfor- .■ ring,to...tho ..approaching^-Premiers' Conference, ..stated that it .would bo necessary to attack with determination the subject of .t-hci • tnancial; relations ' Commonwealth and the States. . . . Theio appoarod to be a-disposition among ; many Federal members, Mr. Bent conimiiedj .-1 to - think they ..could ndo rough-shod ovcr*the ; States. lie had, boon, led to ; believe that- . Mho . States wero to,'; be ' independent;: • but ■•V.':.; the. prevalent idoa. seemed to' be to get.the- .' . whole thing igto tlie' hands of the Com : ■ ■ mohwoalth.- : . • • •' -.■. '' i ; ... He • was- sorry to-'-say- the ■/Colonial Office .. . wan.helping,>in' thatf,direction. From 'a eon- • versation, fie had;.kad■■■with Lord Elgin, ho ' found, that ;Lord:Elgin favoured one -conduit ■ ( . P."Pe, instead vofa six;, - Our present - State 1 /■ ■ Goyornors ;werp coming to be just a kind' of chief;clerlj.-X \'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 5
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142STATE' RIGHTS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 5
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