PLANS UNDER WAY

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 11

PLANS UNDER WAY

Federal Counter-Move LANG’S OBSTRUCTION / Garnishes Enforcement By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Rec. April 14, 8.5 p.m.) Sydney, April 14, The Federal plans to put an end to the obstructionist tactics of the State Premier, Mr, J. T. Lang, are under way. The Federal Government insists on the complete carrying out of the provisions of the Garnishee Act. Jurors went unpaid at court sittings at Goulburn and Maitland since no money was available. The “Dally Telegraph” says that, should the Federal Government be forced to attach unemployment relief taxation, the unemployed would not lose any of their present benefits. It is reported that in such a case the Federal Government will administer the issuing of the dole, and will also pay widows’ pensions. The majority of Public Servants in New South Wales received their pay to-day in banknotes taken from the State Treasury in large bags under escort. Country school teachers, however, are likely to wait till the end of next week before they receive theirs. Revenue which has been accumulating in country centres from license fees, land dues, and other sources since the Commonwealth blockade began will be drawn upon. State Treasury officials have been in close conference since Monday trying to prepare a method of overcoming their present difficulties and paying staffs with a minimum of trouble and confusion. They preserve a discreet silence upon the subject. The New South Wales Government has approached the High Court for an order directing the Bank of New South Wales and the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney to repay all State money paid to the Commonwealth Bank under the Garnishee Act, and for an injunction restraining the banks’ officers from acting further without the consent of the State Government.