POWER OF THE PURSE
EXPENDITURE ON PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAVAGANCE IN AUSTRALIA DENIED. (Received October 2, 11 ajn.) LONDON, Ist October. The Hon. B. R. Wise, Agent-General for New South Wales, has written to the Times, controverting its Sydney correspondent's statement that the State Premiers "persisted 'in continuing costly but not urgent public works with borrowed British capital." Mr. Wise" says that at the Premiere* request the Australian Agents- General met and reported to the Premiers' Conference regarding finance. He asserts that the States' requirements were cut down to the irreducible minimum, and need cause no anxiety. No State had any intention of entering on public expenditure <hieh was costly and not urgent. Some of the States may be unwilling to borrow through the Commonwealth, which would impair the large powers given them by the constitution as interpreted by the Courts. The power of the purse has always been the instrument of political control.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 80, 2 October 1915, Page 5
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