LABOUR CO-OPERATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 5

LABOUR CO-OPERATION

MR FADDEN CONFIDENT Brisbane, Sept. 9. Mr Fadden is supremely confident of securing adequate support and political co-operation from the Federal Labour Party now that he has becoyie Prime Minister. lie expressed this view at a civic reception in his honour at Ipswich to-day. He said : “If Labc«ir co-oper-ates to the same extent as it did when I was Acting-Prime Minister, then I, and Australia, through me, will have no cause for complaint.” He also gave an assurance that Labour would grant a pair for Sir Earle Page during his absence in London. Mr Fadden referred to the forthcoming Budget as outweighing anything that had preceded it. and, he hoped, anything that would follow. Reviewing Australia’s primary production, he said that, notwithstanding shipping difficulties, the export income had substantially increased since the war began, while the gross income of the farmers was even higher than before the war In round figures, wool exports for 1940-41 totalled £41,500.000. wheat and flour £16,000,000, butter £12,000,000, sugar £4.750.000 and meat £15,750.00.—U.P.A.