CONDEMNATION BY ARCHBISHOP

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1931, Page 9

CONDEMNATION BY ARCHBISHOP

MISGUIDED HOAX ON AUSTRALIA

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 11th February, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Archbishop of Melbourne, Right Rev. F. W. Head, in an address to the Anglican Provincial Synod, said: "I view with profound concern the reappointment to the Government of a Minister who is still awaiting the decision of a Court of Law on a serious charge. Until the stain on his character is removed, I have no choice but to declare that the moral standard of public life has been seriously lowered by his inclusion in the Federal Cabinet." Referring to inflation, the Archbishop said: "It is dishonest, because it pretends to bring wealth to the working classes when in reality it will lessen the real worth of their wages. It is disloyal, for we shall be deliberately paying less 'than we promised to those who laid down their lives for us in the Great War for the maintenance of their widows and children, and the disabled. I shall use any influence that I may have to prevent this.misguided hoax being perpetrated on Australian citizens."