AUSTRALIAN STATE WORKS
LONDON, October 1. In the course of a letter to The Times, Sir B. R. Wise controverts its Sydney correspondent’s statement that the State Premiers had “persisted in continuing costly and not urgent public works with borrowed British capital.” The Agent-general says that at the Premier's request the Agents-general met and reported to the Premiers’ Conference regarding the question of finance, and he asserts that the State’s requirements were cut down to an irreducible minimum which need cause no anxiety. No State lujd any intention of entering into a public expenditure which was costly and not urgent. Some States might be unwilling to borrow through the’ commonwealth, which would impair the large powers that were given them by the Constitution as interpreted by the courts, and the power of the purse had always been an instrument of political control.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 65
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142AUSTRALIAN STATE WORKS Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 65
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