COAL BOUNTY.
A VICTORIAN PROTEST. MATTER LIKELY TO BE TAKEN COURT. (United i'res.-, Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, March 5. “If the Federal Prime Minister persists in granting the bounty to- the coal industry iu order to keep it going in New South Wales,” the Victorian Premier, Sir William McPherson, told a deputation to-day, “it will be made a test matter in the High Court. ’ ’
Sir William believes Mr Bruce’s action is unconstitutional. Victorian taxpayers were not going to submit to money' being taken from their pockets to assist coalmining in another State when a similar concession was not available for Victorian mines.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 March 1929, Page 5
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107COAL BOUNTY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 March 1929, Page 5
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