AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ;Peh Press Association.)
BRISBANE, Feb. 10. Mr Fisher opposed the Wages Boards, and urged the necessity to give greater power to the Federal Parliament to protect the workers. He claimed that his Government were responsible for the initiation of the Australian naval defence scheme, and were the first to put the idea into concrete form. The inclusion of financial arrangements with the States in the Constitution would prove embarrassing to the people of Australia, because it would be impossible to have a protectionist tariff and a large revenue from the Customs. If _ they were going to have a Protectionist country, and he believed they were, very high duties would be required to defray the expenses of the; federation and the payment of the 25s per head to the States. He urged the people to trust the Federal Parliament to do justice to the States. If justice were not done the people had a remedy at next election.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9139, 11 February 1910, Page 7
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