FADDEN CONFIDENT

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 295, 10 September 1941, Page 7

FADDEN CONFIDENT

Co-operation From Federal Labour Party (Received September 9, 11.40 p.m.) BRISBANE, September 9. Mr. Fadden is supremely confident of securing adequate support and political co-operation from the Federal Labour Party now that he lias become Prime Minister. He expressed this view at a civic reception in his honour at Ipswich today. He said: “If Labour co-operates to the same extent as it did when I was Acting-Prime Minister, then I, and Australia, through me, will have no cause for complaint.” He also gave an assurance that Labour would grant a pair for Sir Earle Page during his absence in London. Mr. Fadden referred to the forthcoining Budget as outweighing anything that had preceded it, and, he hoped, anything that would follow. Reviewing Australia’s primary production, he said that, notwithstanding shipping difficulties, the export income had substantally increased since the war began, while the gross income of the farmers was even higher than before the war. In round figures, wool exports for 1940-41 totalled £41,500.000, wheat and flour £16,000,000, butter £12,000,000, sugar £4,750,000, and meat £ 15J50’000. •