MOVE FOR SECESSION

Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 February 1931, Page 5

MOVE FOR SECESSION

I NEW SOUTH WALES RIFT | DEFINITE PLANS REVEALED LARGE AREA INVOLVED. (U uiieci Prtaso Association —By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.) SYDNEY, Feb. 18. Following on Dr. Earle Page’s speech on the agitation for the creation of a new State in northern New South Wales, the “Sydney Sun” today features an article hinting that within a fortnight a most sensational move for the creation of a new State in Northern New South Wales will be undertaken. The area included in the secession movement is 100,000 square miles, and embraces the districts north and north-west of Tamworth, the prosperous centre of a dairying district. The' population of the area is about 400,000.

The “Sun” says that the breakaway movement lias gone beyond the stage of words. It is expected that the conference of the New State Leaguers, meeting at the end of this month, will make vital decisions which will probably lead to an immediate announcement regarding secession from New South Wales. Well-informed people, however, point out that there are constitutional difficulties in the way of sudden secession.