HUGE PETITIONS AGAINST BANK NATIONALISATION
CANBERRA, Sept. 25
Country Party members, after assembling in a nearby hall, marched to the Prime Minister’s suite at Canberra laden with a petition against the Government’s bank nationalisation plan bearing 69,000 signatures. The petition almost completely covered Mr Chifley’s table. The Leader of the Country Party (Mr A. W. Fadden) explained to Mr Chifley that he and his colleagues were discharging their obligations to a large number of Australian electors. The signatures were in addition to those already presented in Parliament. Party officials estimated that over 500,000 signatures on petitions protesting against bank nationalisation had been received.
Mr Chifley said he would receive any petitions forwarded to him through the Opposition, but he gave no pledge that he would read them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1947, Page 7
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