FEDERAL POLITICAL DEADLOCK.
MR COOK'S DEFIANCE
LABOR PARTY TO THE RESCUE OF DISMISSED ENGINEER.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) (Received Sept. 1, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 1. Mr Cook, tlie Premier, m an interview, said : — "We shall go to the country when we are ready, not a moment before. I should like if possible to make some changes m the electoral law. 1 shall give Mr Fisher an opportunity of turning down the proposals or passing them as he choosss.
"Mr Chirm, who was employed as an engineer on the transcontinental railway, has been discharged. His friends m the Senate have rushed to his rescue. They set the business of the country aside while they appointed a partisan committee of enquiry. The chairman prejudiced the case by declaring, before the enquiry opens, 'No more scandalous piece of persecution has ever taken place.' "
Mr Cook added that tlie present position cannot, m the very nature of things, be a lasting one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13169, 1 September 1913, Page 3
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