REFERENDUM BILLS.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. WIDE POWERS SOUGHT. (Received April 10, 0.55 p.m.) CANBERRA, April 10. The Federal Government's three Referendum Bills—-one providing for complete power to amend tho Constitution, tho second for power to control industrial affairs, and the third for power to control trade and commerce—all passed their second reading in tho ilouso of Representatives toidav.
Members representing Western Australia and Tasmania declared that thcro t-u.s no hopo whatever of the first proposal being carried. The electors in their States were not prepared to allow the federal Government to " dynamite" the Constitution.
Rather would Western Australia arid Tasmania prefer that tho Federal l'?rliaJtient should be abolished.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 11
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