QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT.
LABOUR IN OPPOSITION,
By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. ■ (Received July 23, 11.44 p.m.) BRISBANE, July 33. The Queensland Parliament was opened to-day by commission. The Labour members took seats on the'.Opposition cross benches. ...... . '
Considerable interest attaches to the attitude that may be taken by the Queensland I-a bo nr party, which holds the balance of power. The Ministerialists number 24. Oppositionists 30, and Labourites 13. When the results of the elections in May were announced, Mr Fillip, leader of the Opposition, said it was more likely (hat the Premier, Mr Kidston. .would come to am arrangement with the Labour party 1 than with the Opposition. The position, however, was so complicated that he preutcted an early dissolution.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6269, 24 July 1907, Page 5
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