QUEENSLAND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 24 May 1917, Page 2

QUEENSLAND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Tne correspondent of the Christchurch Press, writing on May 10, says: The Premier of Queensland, an extreme politician, with thousands of bitter political .enemies, must b e finding hfe to-day well-nigh unbearable. The events of the past two weeks coniuhrpSbnc'ife! 3 '0 UnhaPpi6St Chapt6rS Some time ago, the Queensland Laf?« *£ 0i c", m6T& decided to take, on the Federal polling day. a referendum am the question of abolishing the L™ lative Council. Certain members of the" Legislative Council went to the Queens WfL? g n he x ?° vei 'nment from taking the poll on the grounds that it had no legal pow.er to so decide the fate of the Council, and that the .taking of a State referendum on a Federal polling! law lhe Supreme Court sent it on to the Seatepsentselcth oppon-. o L ? _P 'the, State's Appeal Count, and the'latl » ter to the Federal High Court. By the ; time the latter settled down to aeon! sideration of all the complicated Si and constitutional points involved th« proposed polling-day was only three rusnect, the Queensland Premier fought C?J a? hln) Self <he "'also AttSwGeneral and a barrister), and actfmr nL t Q timex.*° n the basis that thJpeo Pie were aching to get to the poll aZI !£- ea,Ty P^posal by in oveiJjelmmg majority, h e insisted that the pollmg h arrangements should begonl wai faniv^ C?f "SSW a compromise poll "He tIJn he£rlhe°k d agreed +W i_» 'v^? d rf>he Premiei? nSL shonlfl 1, V Ta- lld _ty and <#ectiveSSision «f til Sn hiet to a, subsequent onPriday Immediatol^the wimtZ ting m Sydney—sizzled with uteris usages. Between then and 9 a m ?he and- scattered State. Howeve? _11 7 rangements had been made belorehand bttle^lse was wanted except the word bJ hei P°U i "'I s dul- y taken* The result Knd Thl yl!G^ Cabled to Net Zea. tors' J hV nte"igent Queensland efec£S SsfSe^ab 11!^^ the Legislative^Council* Ahn}^ 011 f S°e f f o P in?on STn mQiti!:sland Chang6 fa P"blic