STATE GOVERNORS.
ARE THEY NECESSARY 1 TASMANIANS SAY "NO.*'
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.' • Hobart, November 22. Ik the House of Assembly, Mr. Earle, Leader of the Labour party, opposed the travelling allowance to the Governor in- : eluded in the Estimates. " Mr. Earle declared - that a State y Go-1 vernor was unnecessary. The proper link between the State and the Throne was the Governor-General. If the people wanted, pomp and show in their ceremonies," let them pay for it. It wa,s the' tinpot aristocrat that wanted to "kow-tow" to the Governor, and who desired him to travel to this place and that. ' The deputy-leader of the party declared that the post of Governor was a useless excrescence, and the item was struck 'oul? by 14 votes to 9. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14845, 23 November 1911, Page 7
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