AUSTRALIA OVER-GOVERNED
STATE PARLIAMENTS MUST GO MR LANG CONVINCED. Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. SYDNEY, April 17. The Premier, Mr J. T. Lang, in an interview, said that he hoped to see the time when the whole of the State parliaments and tie office of State governoi be abolished. He said that the abolition of . State legislatures could not be achieved piecemeal, but a move would have to be made conjointly by all the States. He entirely favours the retention of the office of * Governor-Gen-eral, and thinks that the time has come when another convention should be held to ''define the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament. Mr Lang said that as a substitute for State Parliaments his idea was to give extended powers to local government authorities to create such bodies as provisional (provincial?) councils. It was ridiculous, he said, to have so many Parliaments to govern six million people. queenslanTelections BRISBANE, April 17. Nominations for the Queensland general elections show that the Country Party Nationalists are contesting 67 seats, Labour 68, and Independents 11. Six electorates are uncontested.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12424, 19 April 1926, Page 6
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