SECESSION PLANS
NEW AUSTRALIAN STATE DRAFT CONSTITUTION NOW adopted (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Sydney, April 7. Delegates from the m rtaern portion of New South Wales to the number of lo() assembled in the Maitland T«,\>'u Hall a/ul a4 ( Pttd a draft constitution for a new Federal unit called “New England.” The speeches emphasised that t>ie movement was d«»o to misgovern men f and the New South Wales repudiation of its national obligations. Dr. Earl Page, M.P., the o,utiatatiding figure in the new State movement, declared: “We have to find a better way of governing ourselves, because the existing way has laoughf shame and .dislioinoiiirs’*
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 5
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