AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 September 1934, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS

New Zealand Leaders’ Comment on Mr. Lyons’ Success “TRIBUTE TO COMMONSENSE” DEPRESSION DIFFICULTIES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. Commenting on the Australian elections Mr Forbes said the victory of the Lyons Government was very encouraging as a recognition by the Australian people of the courageous way in which the Commonwealth Goverrimnt had faced the difficulties of the depression, entailing a programme of unpopular and drastic measures and involving sacrifices by all sections of the community. It was a tribute to the commonsense of the Commonwealth that fhey could distinguish between a solid performance and illusory promises. The contest was between a Labour Party which was in office at the beginning of the depression and a Government that had taken over unsolved problems from them. This made the result all the more significant, as it showed that the people of Australia were determined to stand by a stable and responsible Goveframnt. Mir Coates remarked that it appeared from returns available that the Australian .people had given a complete answer to the socalled monetary cranks who had been putting forward quack remedies. In common with the rest of the world, Australia had been passing through an entirely new set of circumstances, and it was evident that the people of. the Commonwealth appreciated what had been done. by the Government to meet the position. It was too early yet to discuss thA effect the election would have on the question of the importation of Australian fruit into New Zealand.

Comment in London Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. 16. “The Times” in a leader says that the election was fought so much on the issue of the financial methods, oh which there is such complete ufianimity of Mr J. A. Lyons and the Country Party, that it seems clear that the Australian policy will he guided for three years by the principles which already have done so much to restore her credit.