ABOLITION ISSUE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 March 1926, Page 7

ABOLITION ISSUE.

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MR, LANG by cabIe—PEESS association—copyright Received 11.25 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, March 12. According to statements in political circles, the State Governor has already given Mr. Lang to understand that he can obtain a dissolution of Parliament if he desires to seek a mandate from the people on the question oi the Upper House. - The consensus of opinion in political Labour circles is that it is the Premier’® desire to see Sir Timothy Coghlan, at present Agent-General, in the position now occupied by Sir Dudley de Chair (State Governor).

A NOMINEE HOUSE

PARTY INFLUENCES PREVAIL. Received 12.10 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, March 12. Continuing his statement, Mr Lang declared: ‘ ‘The only opposition to our policy comes from our traditional enemies, and I would be unworthy of my trust, and a contemptible coward into the bargain, if I were to lie down and submit to their dictations. It is the rankest humbug to refer to a nominee House as the chamber of revision when a revision of the division lists show convincingly that the Council is just as much a party House as the Assembly, and so long as it remains in existence the Government of the day must have a majority there or submit to nominee rule. At present the Nationalists have a majority on the Council, and that majority has deliberately planned to thwart* the Government, not only on the Abolition Bill, but on all vital Labour legislation. If the Opposition thinks the Government is going to be influenced by the torrent of abuse now being levelled at me, they are making the mistake of their lives.”