TASMANIAN PARLIAMENT
HOBART Nov. 22. In the Assembly, Mr Earle, Leader of the Labor Party, opposed the travelling allowance of the Governor, included in the estimates and declared that a State Governor was unnecessary. The proper link between the State and the Throne was the Governor-General. If the people wanted pomp and show at their ceremonies let them pay for it. It was a tin-pot aristocracy that wanted to kow-tow to the Governor, who desired him to travel to this place and that. The Deputy-Leader of the Party declared that the post of Governor was a useless excrescence. The item was struck out by 14 to 9:
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 23 November 1911, Page 5
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107TASMANIAN PARLIAMENT Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 23 November 1911, Page 5
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