FEDERAL POLITICS.
PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWED. WILL GO TO COUNTRY WHEN IT SUITS HIM. , SYDNEY, Sept. 1. Mr Cdok (Federal Prime Minister) in an interview to-day, said, "We shall go to the country when we are ready and not a moment before. I should like if possible to make some changes in the electoral law, and shall give Mr Fisher an opportunity of turning down the proposals or passing them as he chooses.
"Mr Chirm, who was employed as an engineer on the trans-Continental railway, has been discharged, and his friends in the Senate have rushed to his rescue ajid set tlie business of the country aside while they appointed a partisan committee of enquiry. The chairman prejudiced the case by declaring, before the enquiry opens, that no more scandalous piece of persecution had ever taken place."
Mr Cook added that the present uosition cannot, in the very nature of things, be a lasting one.
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Northern Advocate, 1 September 1913, Page 5
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