SCULLIN'S STATEMENT
COMING DISSOLUTION
PERSEVERANCE FIRST
(Received Bth April, 10 a.m.) • MELBOURNE, This Day. The Prime Minister has modified his statement in regard to dissolution. He now says that the Government will persevere with the Fiduciary Note Issue Bill to provide money for wheatgrowers, and also tho unemployed. I£ tho Senate this, week rejects the Bill, ft will be sent back after the prescribed three months has elapsed. If it is again rejected, the Government will ask for a double dissolution. Mr. Seullin added that a dissolution of one House would not decide anything. It -will thus be three months or longer before the elections occur.
The Prime Minister, Mr. .T. H. Scullin, in. a speech at the Victorian Labour Conference, declared that" the Ministry would appeal to the people if the Fiduciary Bill was rejected by the Senate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 82, 8 April 1931, Page 9
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