N.S.W. POLITICS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 143, 19 May 1932, Page 7

N.S.W. POLITICS

PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED. INSTRUCTIONS TO LONDON AGENT. MR STEVENS ACTS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 19, 10.5 a.m. SYDNEY, May 19.

A proclamation for the dissolution of Parliament and proroguing the Legislative Council until July 5 has been issued.

Tho Minister of Education has annulled the direction of the Government that employees- in the Education Department should become trade unionists.

The Premier, Mr B S. Stevens, has cabled to Mr A. C. Willis, AgentGeneral in London',i instructing him to desist advocating tho Lang Plan and repudiation, for which course li© has no authority from the present Government; ulso to cease all negotiations with British bondholders for a reduction of interest, as this matter is entirely ono for the Australian Loan Council. i,

A message from Canberra states: A Biff providing for the suspension of the Financial Agreement Enforcement Acts and the Financial Emergency Act has been passed by the Federal Parliament. All proclamations and regulations, notices, and directions issued by the Commonwealth for the attachment of State revenue and the Bill nullifying the Mortgages Taxation Bill, passed by the State Parliament, are suspended under tho Biff.

MR WILLIS’S STATEMENT. Received May 19, 10.0 a.m. * LONDON, May 18. Mr Willis has cabled a reply to Mr (Stevens, but he declines to disclose tlie contents of the message. In a statement published in the Press, Mr Willis said that he regarded the cable sent by Mr Stovens as merely a notification of the Ministry’s policy, on which ho was not prepared to comment. “Mr Lang’s instructions to me have never gone beyond the request for time to pay. I never understood it as a policy of repudiation,” Mr Willis stated.

MUCH COMMENT AROUSED. Received Mav 19, 11.55 a.m. LONDON May 18. The Daily Herald’s diplomatic correspondent says that Mr Stevens’s action in publicly rebuking Mr Willis has aroused much comment. It is generally considered that the publication of Mr Stevens’s cable without awaiting Mr Willis’s reply was a deliberate affront—made in the hope of provoking Mr Willis to resign. UNITY PACT. UNITED AUSTRALIA AND UNITED COUNTRY PARTIES. Received May 19, 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, May 19. The terms of the unity pact between the United Australia Party and the United Country Party disclose that the Country Party agreed to withdraw* all its official candidates from the country seats at present held by United Australia Party members, thus ending a dispute of long standing. 1 In a statement, Mr M. Bruxner, Deputy-Premier, said: “The Country Party is doing its duty to tho State. It requires some sacrifice by our supporters, hut I ask them to help not only me. but also the people of New South Wales and Australia.”

LONDON MARKET. LONDON, May 18. Financial newspapers stress the buoyanev of Australian stocks. Tins is attributed to Mr J. T. Lang’s downfall in New South Wales and tho result of the Victorian elections. The Times says: “It is expected that Mr A. E. Moore, the Premier, will now retain control in Queensland, in which event all tho Governments in Australia will bo united in support of the policy embodied in the Premiers’ Plan, which has been pursued vigorously by tho Commonwealth, Government.”