“NEW ENGLAND”

Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 5

“NEW ENGLAND”

FEDERAL UNIT SCHEME SECESSION FROM STATE. CONSTITUTION FRAMED. (Doited Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 7. A draft constitution for a new Federal unit, which it is proposed to call “New England,” was adopted today by 150 delegates from the northern portion of New South Wales, at a meeting in the Town Hall, Maitland, 120 miles north of Sydney.

The speakers emphasised the fact that the movement was due to misgovornment, and chiefly to the repudiation by the New South Wales Government of its national obligation. Dr Earle Page, Leader of the Country Party, who is the outstanding figure in the new State movement, said: “We must find a better way of governing ourselves, because the existing way has brought shame and dishonour upon us.”

“FESTERING SORE.”

RECALCITRANT N.S. WALES. EXPULSION WARRANTED. (Received 9 a.m.) PERTH, April 7. Mr A. McCallum, Labour member of th Western Australian Legislative Assembly for South Fremantle, returned today from attending the Federal Lab our Conference at Canberra. He said the recent expulsion of the New South Wales Labour Executive from the Aus tralian Labour Party was inevitable. It should have been done years ago Sydney had been a festering sb're on the Labour movement for years. A coterie had formulated its own policy, which in its essence was fundamentally opposed to the Labour movement.

Mr MeCallum said he had been toll that Mt Lang’s repudiation plan Had not been placed before the New South Wales Cabinet. The first the members of that Cabinet knew of it was when the plan was published in the Press, There was no fear whatever of any of the other States following Mr Lang’s example. PROPAGANDA EXTENSION. INTO OTHER STATES. LOFTY AMBITION. , (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The “Sydney Morning Herald” says the Lang Party, having obtained the sanction of the majority of the New South Wales Labour leagues for its repudiation policy, decided to carry its campaign into other states, with the object of making it the policy of Australia. 'An army of organisers, led by Mr Lang, is going to Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland to hold propaganda meetings to secure the support of these state branches of the Australian Labour Party. It is regarded as certain, and is even stated positively in the bestinformed Labour circles, that Mr Lang, if successful, will enter Federal polities, probably by securing election for Reid, with the object of obtaining leadership of the Australian Labour Party. Mr Lang’s future depends absolutely upon the measure of success he achieves in his Australia-wide campaign.