NEW STATE MOVEMENT

Evening Star, Issue 17957, 2 May 1922, Page 4

NEW STATE MOVEMENT

AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN. Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, May 2. (Received May 2, at 11.00 a.m.) The advocates for cutting Now South Widen info new Stales are conducting a. three days’ catnpaig;| in the, heart of the city. They point ’(* decentralisation iu New Zealand as an example to he imitated. [The Sydney Committee of the New Slate'; League had adopted the following objectives Thai, I here .shall bo an association, to be called the Few Slates of Australia, League. (2l The objects of (he league, shall he to reform the Government system of Australia, by (a) t-be creation of new States on a reasonable area, with all (lie powers ircessary for quickening development; (b) redistributing Iho Government powers belwami (lie Commonwealth and States, so that all matters of common milioual concern shall be eontrolled by 'tho Commonwealth, and all matters of local interest, nr that are necessary to local development, .should lie eoniroiled by the Stale; (c) securing eoustifntjoiuil machinery whereby the creation of such new Slates’. in accordance will) such revised Federal system, filial 1 he facilitated; (d) simpliScakion and cheapening of tho whole, cost of Government throughout- Australia; (cl co-operating with the existing new States movement:; throughout Australia, or other bodies having similar objects.]