LAWSON FASCINATED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16074, 10 March 1923, Page 5

LAWSON FASCINATED.

“GENIUS FOB, GOVERNMENT.”

LONDON, March 2.—“lt seems only a step from Collins-strcet to Whitehall,” declared/ Mr L. C. Amery, chairman of the Empire Parliamentary Association, at a-luneheon given to Mr Lawson (Premier of Victoria). Emphasising Melbourne as the most English city in the Commonwealth, and Victoria as not the least English of the States resembling an ampler Sussex, Mr Amery paid a tribute to Mr Lawson for carrying on with the., greatest credit the great traditions of parliamentary and l administrative life. Mr Lawson professed to be thrilled 1 and fascinated by liis visit to the Houso of from which the Dominions were an instrument of government to work out their own destiny without interference. That was a part of the genius for government, for which tho British race was noted. He pointed out that the Australian system of law was based! on the British. He took off his Jiat with admiration as ho watched 1 very closely British legislation, and lie looked' to Britain for amendment and reform. Australian draughtsmen took advantage. of tlie splendid work of the British.