WESTRALIAN SECESSION
BRITISH GOVT.’S PRUDENCE [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Roc. December 18, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. When Lord Aberdeen presented the Western Australian secession petition, in the Lords, Lord Hailsham said that it raised matters of grave constitutional importance, having regard to the present relationships between the Dominions and Britain. The position w*as not free from doubt, and could not be hastily determined before the reception of the petition. He hoped that the House would give him until the re-assembly, in January, to consider the issues, and to advise the House on the most convenient manner of dealing with them. The House agreed to this course. The Western Australian flag, consisting of the Union Jack adjoining a staff with a black swan in the field, was hoisted on the Western Australian offices, when the Secessionists departed for Westminster to witness the presentation of the petition.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 7
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