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PROVINCIAL COUNCIL DISPUTE. CONSTITUTION OF UNION. (By Electric C7abio.~ Copyright)., (Aust. and N-Z Gable Association). Copt own, March 23. Tiic financial crisis in the Provincial Council led to the defeat of the Administration. The proposal to go into committee on the taxation proposals was defeated, and a Nationalist resolution to adjourn to afford members the opportunity of consulting their constituents was carried by 28 to 17. The Administrator immediately prorogued the Council for a mouth. No supply was voted to carry oil in the interval. Referring to the position, the Minister lor Interior, said that they had to face the question of whether there was going to a unitary state or a federation of states. 4he Union constitution dearly said it should be unitary, hut the system of provincial councils was neither unitaiy nor federal. Something like a new National Convention was required to settle the matter. . '
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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 134, 25 March 1924, Page 6
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