FEDERATION AND STATES.
. \ SURPLUS REVENUE ACT. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ENFORCES ■ . . .THE NEW LAW. ■' ■' (ur telegraph—press association— copyright.) ' (Roc. July 1, 1.2 a.m.) ' Melbourne, June 30. The Commonwealth Government, instead of paying the Juno revenue to the States, paid it: into the old ago pensions and coastal defence trust funds, as provided under the Surplus Revenue Act. 1
The States made an offer,; through Mr. Wado to .voluntarily surrender sufficient revenue to provido Federal old ago pensions if in return tho Federal Government would not adopt the course of appropriating revenuo under the Surplus' Revenue 1 Act, which llr. Wado holds I. to be subversive of State rights and probably unconstitutional..', Tho Federal government apparently prefors to enforce tho Act."'
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 238, 1 July 1908, Page 7
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