GHASTLY FAILURE
CANBERRA AS CAPITAL!
BEST MEN QUIT POLITICS
MELBOURNE, July 26.
Mr. Kent Hughes, Victorian Minister of Railways, in a . speech condemned Canberra as a Federal capital, and declared it, to be a ghastly failure that was driving the best'men from politics, notably Messrs. S. M. Bruce, J.G. Latham, Sir Walter Massy; Gfreene, Sir Henry Gullett, and.now Sir Harry Lawson, who was not prepared to: give up time to travelling and living there. Mr. Hughes added: "It is impossible not to realise the dead hand of Canberra in the political affairs of Australia." '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1934, Page 9
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94GHASTLY FAILURE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1934, Page 9
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