SECESSION PETITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22585, 31 May 1935, Page 13

SECESSION PETITION

SELECT COMMITTEE’S REPORT DELEGATION DISAPPOINTED LONDON, May 29. The secession delegation has issued a statement expressing disappointment at the Select Committee’s . report, and fears that its adoption will occasion some resentment in Western Australia. The only inference from it (continues the statement) is that, no matter what injury or injustice is inflicted, or what redress is attempted, no action can be taken by the Imperial Parliament. The delegation is prepared to demonstrate that the injuries to the State are not the natural consequences of its entry into the federation, but'Federal abuses of the Constitution, the final consequences of which will be the impoverishment of many Western Australian industries* the destruction of prosperity, and impediment of the State’s development. Western Australia’s plea was that the Commonwealth’s violation of the 1900 Act destroyed her sovereign rights. “We strongly feel that the British Parliament should not. adopt the report, but at least receive a petition to investigate the serious indictments against the Commonwealth, otherwise any future action must be decided by the Western Australian people.”