VICTORIA GOVT. DEFEATED BY LABOUR-C.P. PACT
(10 a.rn.) MELBOURNE. June 24. The four-day-old I-lollway Government was overwhelmingly defeated by the combined votes Of the Labour and Country Parties in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The voting of a no-confidence motion by the Country Party leader, Mr. McDonald, was 38 to 24. The vote was taken after a 17-hour debate, remarkable chiefly for the Government’s stubborn stonewalling. The Premier, Mr. T. T. Hollway, is expected to call on the Governor, Sir Dallas Brooks, and ask for the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly on the grounds that, as the Country Party represents only 10 per cent of the .electors, it is not competent to form a Government. Meanwhile, the Trades Hall Council secretary. Mr. J. Stout, and his assistant, Mr. M. Jordan, have resigned from the Labour Party as a protest against the Labour-Country Party pact.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 5
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