COLONIAL LESSONS
VALUE OF REFERENDUM IN FOCUSSING ATTENTION.
LONDON, December 1. Many references are being made on political platforms and in the .newspapers to Australia’s referenda and the Kew Zealand votes on local loans and the licensing laws. Lord Eidlcy (Unionist), in a letter, says he entirely approves Mr Balfour’s declaration in regard to the referendum.. Lord Lausdowne, Conservative leader in the House of Lords, addressing a meeting of 9000 persons at Portsmouth, eaid the value of the referendum—with j which Mr Asquith had flirted on various ! occasions—was that it focussed attention on points- Ho trusted that Mr Balfour had reassured a great number of mode- j rates who would resent votes given on a Constitutional issue being used for tariff reform.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7301, 3 December 1910, Page 5
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