STATE GOVERNORS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 November 1926, Page 5

STATE GOVERNORS.

OPPOSED BY LABOUR STRONG AUSTRALIAN RESOLUc TIONS. iIY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT. SYDNEY, Nov. 14. The Labour Conference discussed at length, the question of State Governors, and passed a series of resolutions to the following effect: — (1) That this conference -strongly protests against the action of the Governor in reviving Crown Colony methods in this State, by refusing to per- , mit his Ministers’ advice to prevail over his own opinions, and dejxor.Lng that his attitude should result in aid being given to the anti-Labour Party majority in the Legislative Council in their war against the Labour Government in. the interests of the money powers of the State. (2) That the labour movement stands for the supremacy of the elected representatives of the people, and this conference will not tolerate the violation of the constitution by - the exercise of autocratic powers, and personal veto by a Governor appointed from abroad, who comes here as a stranger and remains for only a few years. (3) That the condition of., affairs in which a Governor dominates the elected chamber and the Government, is diametrically opposed _to the ideals and.. practice of our educated democracy, and the constitutional I ,' practice of the State, which has marched ahead of the autocratic methods of the old colonial days. (4) That the Labour movement in New South Wales expresses its emphatic opinion that the Australian people do not need the presence of six State Governors, who are claimed by the National Party to he vested with personal power not exercised or claimed': by the King himself in Great Britain. (5) That this conference declares that the Governor-General adequately: represents the Imperial connection, and that State iGdvernors are superfluous. (6) We further affirm our own determination to maintain the rights; of the people to govern themselves without interference from a Governor 1 who, whenever he obstructs the Government of the day. deliberately becomes the instrument of the Opposition, and usurps a power not exercised, by any other Governor in Australia. . The resolutions were carried unanimously.